--- title: Fable 9), who finds one night a young and beautiful woman, richly de… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Fable 9), who finds one night a young and beautiful woman, richly decked with jewels, weeping outside the city in which dwells his royal master Sudraka, and asks her who she is, and why she weeps. Who acts: city, woman. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/54/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) / 54 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 54 Fable 9), who finds one night a young and beautiful woman, richly decked with jewels, weeping outside the city in which dwells his royal master Sudraka, and asks her who she is, and why she weeps. **Who acts:** city, woman · **What happens:** find, deck, weep, dwell, ask, be · **To what, where:** young woman, royal master · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (city, woman), 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:pg22373:41:54 # text = Fable 9), who finds one night a young and beautiful woman, richly decked with jewels, weeping outside the city in which dwells his royal master Sudraka, and asks her who she is, and why she weeps. 1 Fable fable NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 discourse _ _ 2 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 finds find VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 10 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 richly richly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 21 outside outside ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 dwells dwell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 Sudraka Sudraka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 42 advmod _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 weeps weep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | | a young woman | | | night | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 2 | **deck** | participle | | | | | | with jewels; richly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme | | 3 | **weep** | gerund | | | | | | outside the city | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **dwell** | present | the city | occasion's royal master | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **be** | present | woman | | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot who=Theme | | 7 | **weep** | present | woman | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/55/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. 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