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description: On the Waters of Strength and Weakness much stress is laid in many of the tales about the many-headed Snakes which carry off men's wives and daughters to their metallic castles. Who acts: headed Snakes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchc
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 87

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On the Waters of Strength and Weakness much stress is laid in many of the tales about the many-headed Snakes which carry off men's wives and daughters to their metallic castles.

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**Who acts:** headed Snakes · **What happens:** lay, head, carry off · **To what, where:** Weakness much stress, many tales, wives, metallic castles

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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 (headed Snakes), 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:pg22373:42:87
# text = On the Waters of Strength and Weakness much stress is laid in many of the tales about the many-headed Snakes which carry off men's wives and daughters to their metallic castles.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Waters	Water	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Strength	Strength	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	Weakness	Weakness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stress	stress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	metallic	metallic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present · passive |  | Weakness much stress |  | the many tales about the headed Snakes |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tale=Destination |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry off** | present | the headed Snakes | men's wives and daughters |  | daughters's metallic castles |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to castle=Destination |

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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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