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description: She at first sends her warriors to capture or slay the unwelcome visitors, but Nikita attacks them with his mace, and leaves scarce one alive. Who acts: Helena, Nikita. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, with its dependency
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 154

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She at first sends her warriors to capture or slay the unwelcome visitors, but Nikita attacks them with his mace, and leaves scarce one alive.

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**Who acts:** Helena, Nikita · **What happens:** send, capture, slay, attack, leave · **To what, where:** warriors, unwelcome visitors, visitors, scarce one

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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 (Helena, Nikita), 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:pg22373:44:154
# text = She at first sends her warriors to capture or slay the unwelcome visitors, but Nikita attacks them with his mace, and leaves scarce one alive.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
4	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	unwelcome	unwelcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	attacks	attack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | Helena | Helena's warriors |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme |
| 2 | **capture** | to-infinitive | Helena *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **slay** | infinitive | Helena *not said here* | the unwelcome visitors |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |
| 4 | **attack** | present | Nikita | visitors *= visitor* |  |  |  | with Nikita's mace | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **leave** | present | Helena *not said here* | scarce one |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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