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description: In a Slovak version of this story, a murderous mother sends her son to two mountains, each of which is cleft open once in every twenty-four hours--the one opening at midday and the other at midnight; the former disclosing the Water of Life, the latter the Water of Death. Who acts: murderous mother, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 81

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In a Slovak version of this story, a murderous mother sends her son to two mountains, each of which is cleft open once in every twenty-four hours--the one opening at midday and the other at midnight; the former disclosing the Water of Life, the latter the Water of Death.

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**Who acts:** murderous mother, one · **What happens:** send, be, open, disclose · **To what, where:** son, Slovak version, midday

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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 (murderous mother, one), 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:pg22373:42:81
# text = In a Slovak version of this story, a murderous mother sends her son to two mountains, each of which is cleft open once in every twenty-four hours--the one opening at midday and the other at midnight; the former disclosing the Water of Life, the latter the Water of Death.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Slovak	Slovak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	murderous	murderous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	appos	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	cleft	cleft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
28	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
35	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
46	disclosing	disclose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | a murderous mother | mother's son |  | a Slovak version of this story | hour | to two mountains; once *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme in version=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | the one *not said here* |  |  | midday |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at midday=Location |
| 4 | **disclose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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