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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 118 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 118 Entering it during Vikhor's absence, the Prince made himself known to his mother, "who straightway gave him to eat, and concealed him in a distant apartment, hiding him behind a number of cushions, so that Vikhor might not easily discover him." **Who acts:** Prince, Vikhor · **What happens:** enter, make, know, give, eat, conceal · **To what, where:** palace, Prince, distant apartment, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Prince, Vikhor), 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:pg22373:40:118 # text = Entering it during Vikhor's absence, the Prince made himself known to his mother, "who straightway gave him to eat, and concealed him in a distant apartment, hiding him behind a number of cushions, so that Vikhor might not easily discover him." 1 Entering enter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 during during ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Vikhor Vikhor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 absence absence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 xcomp _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 19 straightway straightway NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 concealed conceal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 apartment apartment NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 behind behind ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 cushions cushion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 41 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 47 mark _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 fixed _ _ 43 Vikhor Vikhor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 44 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 45 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 46 easily easily ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 48 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 50 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | palace | | | during Vikhor's absence | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 2 | **make** | past | the Prince | Prince | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **know** | participle | Prince *not said here* | | | | | to Prince's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **give** *in a quote* | past | | | Prince | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **conceal** *in a quote* | past | | Prince | | a distant apartment | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in apartment=Location | | 7 | **hide** *in a quote* | gerund | | Prince | | a number of cushions | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient behind number=Location | | 8 | **not** **discover** *in a quote* | might | Vikhor | Prince | | | | easily *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 9 | **absent** | | Vikhor | | | | | | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/119/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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