--- title: So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared he… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared herself to be Volga's younger sister, and besought Volga to take her in her arms and bear her to the Caspian Sea. Who acts: mien. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGIC --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/76/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/) / 76 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 76 So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared herself to be Volga's younger sister, and besought Volga to take her in her arms and bear her to the Caspian Sea. **Who acts:** mien · **What happens:** threaten, be, frighten, declare, beseech, take · **To what, where:** mien, Vazuza, younger sister, Volga, arms This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mien), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:38:76 # text = So threatening was her mien, that Vazuza was frightened, declared herself to be Volga's younger sister, and besought Volga to take her in her arms and bear her to the Caspian Sea. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 threatening threaten VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 punct _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 mien mien NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 Vazuza Vazuza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 12 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 16 Volga Volga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 Volga Volga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 Caspian Caspian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **threaten** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is a** | past | | Vazuza's mien | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **frighten** | past · passive | Vazuza's mien *not said here* | Vazuza | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Vazuza's mien | Vazuza | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute | | 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Vazuza's mien *not said here* | Volga's younger sister | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **beseech** | past | Vazuza's mien *not said here* | Volga | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Vazuza's mien *not said here* | Vazuza | | Vazuza's arms | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Value in arm=Location | | 8 | **bear** | infinitive | Vazuza's mien *not said here* | Vazuza | | | | to the Caspian Sea | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/77/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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