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description: The Queen proceeds to tell her son that, when Vikhor comes home, he must hide beneath her purple cloak, and watch for an opportunity of seizing her gaoler's magic mace. Who acts: Queen, son, Vikhor, opportunity. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic a
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 109

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The Queen proceeds to tell her son that, when Vikhor comes home, he must hide beneath her purple cloak, and watch for an opportunity of seizing her gaoler's magic mace.

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**Who acts:** Queen, son, Vikhor, opportunity · **What happens:** proceed, tell, come, hide, watch, seize · **To what, where:** son, purple cloak, magic mace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, son, Vikhor, opportunity), 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:pg22373:42:109
# text = The Queen proceeds to tell her son that, when Vikhor comes home, he must hide beneath her purple cloak, and watch for an opportunity of seizing her gaoler's magic mace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proceeds	proceed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **proceed** | present | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Queen *not said here* |  | Queen's son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** | present | Queen's son |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hide** | must | Vikhor |  |  | Queen's purple cloak |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath cloak=Location |
| 5 | **watch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a opportunity | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for opportunity=Theme |
| 6 | **seize** | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | Queen's gaoler's magic mace |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme |

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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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