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title: In that shrine she was sitting upon a high throne, and awaiting her… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that shrine she was sitting upon a high throne, and awaiting her bridegroom, the bold youth who, with a single bound of his swift steed, should reach high enough to kiss her on the lips. Who acts: daughter, bold youth. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 33

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In that shrine she was sitting upon a high throne, and awaiting her bridegroom, the bold youth who, with a single bound of his swift steed, should reach high enough to kiss her on the lips.

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**Who acts:** daughter, bold youth · **What happens:** sit, await, reach, kiss · **To what, where:** shrine, bridegroom, daughter, lips

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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 (daughter, bold youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:3625`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:45:33
# text = In that shrine she was sitting upon a high throne, and awaiting her bridegroom, the bold youth who, with a single bound of his swift steed, should reach high enough to kiss her on the lips.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	shrine	shrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
33	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
37	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | daughter |  |  | that shrine |  | upon a high throne | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shrine=Location |
| 2 | **await** | gerund | daughter *not said here* | daughter's bridegroom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | should | the bold youth |  |  |  |  | with a single bound of bridegroom's swift steed; high *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kiss** | to-infinitive | the bold youth *not said here* | daughter |  | the lips |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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