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description: It often happens that the heroine-stealer whom the hero of the story has to overcome is called, not Koshchei nor the Snake, but Vikhor,[292] the whirlwind. Who acts: It, hero, heroine stealer. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 105

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It often happens that the heroine-stealer whom the hero of the story has to overcome is called, not Koshchei nor the Snake, but Vikhor,\[292\] the whirlwind.

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**Who acts:** It, hero, heroine stealer · **What happens:** happen, have, overcome, call · **To what, where:** heroine stealer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, hero, heroine stealer), 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:pg22373:40:105
# text = It often happens that the heroine-stealer whom the hero of the story has to overcome is called, not Koshchei nor the Snake, but Vikhor,[292] the whirlwind.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	stealer	stealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	292	292	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | It |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | the hero of the story | the heroine stealer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **overcome** | to-infinitive | the heroine stealer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | the heroine stealer |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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