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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/) / 140 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 140 Morfei, give them to eat!" he cried, and immediately excellent viands appeared, with which the mariners were so pleased that they gave the general a magic volume in exchange for his cook--who, however, did not stay with them but secretly followed his master. **Who acts:** Morfei, general, excellent viands, mariners, magic volume · **What happens:** give, eat, cry, appear, be, not stay · **To what, where:** stories, general, master · **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 (Morfei, general, excellent viands, mariners), 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:pg22373:40:140 # text = Morfei, give them to eat!" he cried, and immediately excellent viands appeared, with which the mariners were so pleased that they gave the general a magic volume in exchange for his cook--who, however, did not stay with them but secretly followed his master. 1 Morfei Morfei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 viands viand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mariners mariner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 obj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 volume volume NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 exchange exchange NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 -- -- PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 41 however however ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 43 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 parataxis _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obl _ _ 48 but but CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 secretly secretly ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 50 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | infinitive | Morfei | | stories *= story* | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Morfei *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | general | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | excellent viands | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the mariners | | | | | pleased *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | past | mariners *= mariner* | the general | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent general=Recipient volume=Theme | | 7 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | past · do-support | a magic volume | | | | | with mariners *= mariner*; however *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | | 8 | **follow** *in a quote* | past | a magic volume *not said here* | general's master | | | | secretly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/141/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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