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title: On the way, Nikita enters several forges, desiring to have a war mac… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the way, Nikita enters several forges, desiring to have a war mace cast for him, and in one of them he finds fifty smiths tormenting an old man. Who acts: Nikita, one, fifty smiths. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, wit
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 148

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On the way, Nikita enters several forges, desiring to have a war mace cast for him, and in one of them he finds fifty smiths tormenting an old man.

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**Who acts:** Nikita, one, fifty smiths · **What happens:** enter, desire, have, find, torment · **To what, where:** several forges, way, mace cast, fifty smiths, old man

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nikita, one, fifty smiths), 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:pg22373:44:148
# text = On the way, Nikita enters several forges, desiring to have a war mace cast for him, and in one of them he finds fifty smiths tormenting an old man.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	enters	enter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forges	forge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	desiring	desire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	smiths	smith	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	tormenting	torment	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | Nikita | several forges |  | the way |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forge=Destination |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund | Nikita *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Nikita *not said here* | a mace cast |  |  |  | for Nikita | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=Patient |
| 4 | **find** | present | one of forges | fifty smiths |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smith=Topic |
| 5 | **torment** | gerund | fifty smiths *not said here* | a old man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |

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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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