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description: The steed carries its ghastly burden to St. Ned[)e]lka, who soon reanimates it, and the youth becomes as sound and vigorous as a young man without a heart can be. Who acts: steed, e, youth. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, pa
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 9

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The steed carries its ghastly burden to St. Ned\[)e\]lka, who soon reanimates it, and the youth becomes as sound and vigorous as a young man without a heart can be.

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**Who acts:** steed, e, youth · **What happens:** carry, reanimate, become, be, burden · **To what, where:** ghastly burden, Ned, steed

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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 (steed, e, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:38:9
# text = The steed carries its ghastly burden to St. Ned[)e]lka, who soon reanimates it, and the youth becomes as sound and vigorous as a young man without a heart can be.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ghastly	ghastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Ned	Ned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lka	lka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	reanimates	reanimate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | the steed | steed's ghastly burden | Ned  St. |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme to ned=Destination |
| 2 | **reanimate** | present | e | steed |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | present | the youth |  |  |  |  | as sound; without a heart | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **can** | can | the steed *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **burden** |  | steed |  |  |  |  |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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