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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 89

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As in the variant of the story already quoted,\[312\] her sons go in search of her, and the youngest of them, after finding three palaces--the first of copper, the second of silver, the third of gold, each containing a princess held captive by Vikhor, the whirlwind--comes to a fourth palace gleaming with diamonds and other precious stones.

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**Who acts:** sons, each, princess, fourth palace, story · **What happens:** quote, go, find, contain, hold, come · **To what, where:** 312, search, three palaces, princess, captive, fourth palace

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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 (sons, each, princess, fourth palace), 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:pg22373:42:89
# text = As in the variant of the story already quoted,[312] her sons go in search of her, and the youngest of them, after finding three palaces--the first of copper, the second of silver, the third of gold, each containing a princess held captive by Vikhor, the whirlwind--comes to a fourth palace gleaming with diamonds and other precious stones.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	already	already	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	quoted	quote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	312	312	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
30	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	appos	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	nsubj	_	_
49	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	_
53	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
54	by	by	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	Vikhor	Vikhor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	64	amod	_	_
64	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
65	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	64	acl	_	_
66	with	with	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obl	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
69	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
70	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | past |  | 312 |  |  |  | as the variant of the story | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | Queen's sons |  |  | search of Queen |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **find** | gerund |  | three palaces |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Topic |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | each | a princess |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot princess=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | participle | a princess *not said here* | captive |  |  |  | by Vikhor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent captive=Theme by vikhor=Location |
| 6 | **come** | present |  |  |  | a fourth palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **gleam** | gerund | a fourth palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with diamonds and other precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme |
| 8 | **vary** |  | the story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **search** |  |  | Queen |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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