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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 53

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What gives its special importance, as well as its poetical charm, to the skazka which has been quoted, is the introduction of Frost as the power to which the stepmother has recourse for the furtherance of her murderous plans, and by which she, in the persons of her own daughters, is ultimately punished.

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**Who acts:** stepmother · **What happens:** give, quote, be, have, punish, further · **To what, where:** special importance, introduction, recourse, stepmother, murderous plans

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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 (stepmother), 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:pg22373:40:53
# text = What gives its special importance, as well as its poetical charm, to the skazka which has been quoted, is the introduction of Frost as the power to which the stepmother has recourse for the furtherance of her murderous plans, and by which she, in the persons of her own daughters, is ultimately punished.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	12	cc	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	fixed	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	poetical	poetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	appos	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	recourse	recourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	furtherance	furtherance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	59	obl	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
54	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
58	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present |  | hatred's special importance |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent importance=Theme |
| 2 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the introduction |  |  |  | of Frost; as the power | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the stepmother | recourse |  |  |  | to the power; for the furtherance of stepmother's murderous plans | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient |
| 5 | **punish** | present · passive |  | stepmother |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **further** |  |  | stepmother's murderous plans |  |  |  |  | nom furtherance «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **plan** |  | stepmother |  |  |  |  |  | nom plan «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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