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title: Princess Anna the Fair took her magic-book, and began turning over i… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Princess Anna the Fair took her magic-book, and began turning over its leaves and examining the answers of riddles. Who acts: Princess Anna. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 59

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Princess Anna the Fair took her magic-book, and began turning over its leaves and examining the answers of riddles.

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**Who acts:** Princess Anna · **What happens:** take, begin, turn, examine, answer · **To what, where:** magic book, leaves, answers, riddles

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess Anna), 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:pg22373:43:59
# text = Princess Anna the Fair took her magic-book, and began turning over its leaves and examining the answers of riddles.
1	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	answers	answer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Princess Anna | Anna's magic book |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past | Princess Anna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | Princess Anna *not said here* |  |  | book's leaves |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory |
| 4 | **examine** | gerund | Princess Anna *not said here* | the answers of riddles |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
| 5 | **answer** |  |  | riddles |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication 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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