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MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) / 164 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 164 Morfei the Cook is merely a development of the magic cudgel which in so many stories (\_e.g.\_ the sixth of the Calmuck tales) is often exchanged for other treasures by its master, to whom it soon returns--it being itself a degraded form of the hammer of Thor, the lance of Indra, which always came back to the divine hand that had hurled it. **Who acts:** Morfei, master, sixth, lance, divine hand · **What happens:** be, exchange, return, degrade, come back, hurl · **To what, where:** development, sixth, degraded form, divine hand This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Morfei, master, sixth, lance), 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:pg22373:41:164 # text = Morfei the Cook is merely a development of the magic cudgel which in so many stories (_e.g._ the sixth of the Calmuck tales) is often exchanged for other treasures by its master, to whom it soon returns--it being itself a degraded form of the hammer of Thor, the lance of Indra, which always came back to the divine hand that had hurled it. 1 Morfei Morfei PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Cook Cook PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 merely merely ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 development development NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 cudgel cudgel NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 parataxis _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 e.g. e.g. ADV FW _ 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 30 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 Calmuck Calmuck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 29 often often ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 exchanged exchange VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 42 advmod _ _ 42 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 -- -- PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 45 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 cop _ _ 46 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 45 obj _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 degraded degrade VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 49 amod _ _ 49 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 hammer hammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 Thor Thor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 58 of of ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 Indra Indra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 63 nsubj _ _ 62 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 63 advmod _ _ 63 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 parataxis _ _ 64 back back ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 65 to to ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 66 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 67 divine divine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 68 amod _ _ 68 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ _ 69 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 71 nsubj _ _ 70 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 71 aux _ _ 71 hurled hurl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 68 acl:relcl _ _ 72 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 71 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 73 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Morfei | a development | | | | of the magic cudgel; merely *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **exchange** | present · passive | sixth's master | the sixth of the Calmuck tales | | | | for other treasures; often *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for treasure=Co-Theme | | 3 | **return** | present | sixth | | | | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **degrade** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is a** | gerund | sixth | a degraded form | | | | of the hammer of Thor and the lance of Indra | tree rules | | 6 | **come back** | past | the lance of Indra | | | the divine hand | | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **hurl** | past · perfect | the divine hand | sixth | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/165/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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