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title: Throwing Nikita into a slumber which lasts for twenty-four hours, sh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Throwing Nikita into a slumber which lasts for twenty-four hours, she has his feet cut off, and sets him adrift in a boat; then she degrades her husband, turning him into a swineherd, and she puts out the eyes of Nikita's brother Timofei. Who acts: slumber, Nikita. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 2

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Throwing Nikita into a slumber which lasts for twenty-four hours, she has his feet cut off, and sets him adrift in a boat; then she degrades her husband, turning him into a swineherd, and she puts out the eyes of Nikita's brother Timofei.

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**Who acts:** slumber, Nikita · **What happens:** throw, last, have, cut off, set, degrade · **To what, where:** Nikita, slumber, feet, him, husband, swineherd

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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 (slumber, 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:pg22373:45:2
# text = Throwing Nikita into a slumber which lasts for twenty-four hours, she has his feet cut off, and sets him adrift in a boat; then she degrades her husband, turning him into a swineherd, and she puts out the eyes of Nikita's brother Timofei.
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
2	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	adrift	adrift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	degrades	degrade	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	Nikita	Nikita	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	's	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
51	Timofei	Timofei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund |  | Nikita |  |  |  | into a slumber *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer nikita=Theme into slumber=Result |
| 2 | **last** | present | a slumber |  |  |  | hour |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | Nikita | his feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 4 | **cut off** | participle |  | his feet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **set** | present | Nikita *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | adrift *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
| 6 | **degrade** | present | Nikita | Nikita's husband |  |  | then |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
| 7 | **turn** | gerund | Nikita *not said here* | husband |  | a swineherd |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into swineherd=Trajectory |
| 8 | **put out** | present | Nikita | the eyes of Nikita's brother |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |

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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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