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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 109

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In "The Princess on the Glass Hill"\[347\] the hero gains a Princess as his wife by riding up a hill of glass, on the top of which she sits with three golden apples in her lap, and by carrying off these precious fruits.

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**Who acts:** hero, princess · **What happens:** gain, ride up, sit, carry off · **To what, where:** Princess, hill, top, precious fruits

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, princess), 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:pg22373:45:109
# text = In "The Princess on the Glass Hill"[347] the hero gains a Princess as his wife by riding up a hill of glass, on the top of which she sits with three golden apples in her lap, and by carrying off these precious fruits.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Glass	Glass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	347	347	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	gains	gain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	39	nummod	_	_
38	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
46	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
47	off	off	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | present | the hero | a Princess |  |  |  | in the Princess on the Glass Hill; as story's wife | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient princess=Extent in princess=Attribute |
| 2 | **ride up** | gerund | the hero *not said here* | a hill of glass |  | the top |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | present | princess |  |  |  |  | of the top; with three golden apples in princess's lap | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry off** | gerund | the hero *not said here* | this precious fruits |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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