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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 155

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Then she invites the king and his suite to the palace, having prepared in the mean time a gigantic bow fitted with a fiery arrow, wherewith to annihilate her guests.

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**Who acts:** Helena · **What happens:** invite, prepare, fit, annihilate · **To what, where:** king, gigantic bow, guests

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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), 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:pg22373:44:155
# text = Then she invites the king and his suite to the palace, having prepared in the mean time a gigantic bow fitted with a fiery arrow, wherewith to annihilate her guests.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	suite	suite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux	_	_
14	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
22	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	annihilate	annihilate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** | present | Helena |  | the king and king's suite |  | then | to the palace | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 2 | **prepare** | gerund · perfect | Helena *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fit** | participle |  | a gigantic bow *not said here* |  |  |  | with a fiery arrow | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **annihilate** | to-infinitive |  | Helena's guests |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=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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