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title: But Nikita warns him that for three nights running his bride will ma… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Nikita warns him that for three nights running his bride will make trial of his strength by laying her hand on his breast and pressing it hard--so hard that he will not be able to bear the pressure. Who acts: Nikita, three nights. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscov
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 158

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But Nikita warns him that for three nights running his bride will make trial of his strength by laying her hand on his breast and pressing it hard--so hard that he will not be able to bear the pressure.

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**Who acts:** Nikita, three nights · **What happens:** warn, run, make, lay, press, not be · **To what, where:** king, bride, trial, hand, breast, pressure

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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, three nights), 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:pg22373:44:158
# text = But Nikita warns him that for three nights running his bride will make trial of his strength by laying her hand on his breast and pressing it hard--so hard that he will not be able to bear the pressure.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	warns	warn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	pressing	press	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
37	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present | Nikita |  | king |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | three nights *not said here* | Nikita's bride |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | future | three nights | trial of Nikita's strength |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product |
| 4 | **lay** | gerund | three nights *not said here* | bride's hand |  | Nikita's breast |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on breast=Destination |
| 5 | **press** | gerund | three nights *not said here* | hand |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is** | future | Nikita |  |  |  |  | able, hard *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bear** | to-infinitive | Nikita *not said here* | the pressure |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient |
| 8 | **try** |  |  | Nikita's strength |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act 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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