--- title: Guessing this, Nikita puts on his Cap of Invisibility, bends the bow… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Guessing this, Nikita puts on his Cap of Invisibility, bends the bow, and shoots the arrow into the queen's _terema_ [the women's chambers], and in a moment the whole upper story is in a blaze. Who acts: Nikita, whole upper story. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nikita, whole upper story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:44:156 # text = Guessing this, Nikita puts on his Cap of Invisibility, bends the bow, and shoots the arrow into the queen's _terema_ [the women's chambers], and in a moment the whole upper story is in a blaze. 1 Guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 csubj _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 Nikita Nikita PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Invisibility invisibility NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 arrow arrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 terema terema NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 17 punct _ _ 27 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 chambers chamber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 upper upper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guess** | gerund | | this | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | | 2 | **put** | present | Nikita | | | Nikita's Cap of Invisibility | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cap=Destination | | 3 | **bend** | present | Nikita *not said here* | the bow | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent bow=Material | | 4 | **shoot** | present | Nikita *not said here* | the arrow | | the queen's terema | | the women's chambers *obl* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme into terema=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | the whole upper story | | | a blaze | moment | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/155/) - next →: [sentence 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/157/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/44/)