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description: Vanya crept into one of the horse's ears and out of the other, and turned into such a hero as no skazka can tell of, no pen describe! Who acts: Vanya, skazka, pen. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 61

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Vanya crept into one of the horse's ears and out of the other, and turned into such a hero as no skazka can tell of, no pen describe!

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**Who acts:** Vanya, skazka, pen · **What happens:** creep, turn, tell, describe · **To what, where:** hero · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Vanya, skazka, pen), 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:pg22373:45:61
# text = Vanya crept into one of the horse's ears and out of the other, and turned into such a hero as no skazka can tell of, no pen describe!
1	Vanya	Vanya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep** | past | Vanya |  |  |  |  | into one of the horse's ears | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | such hero |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hero=Trajectory |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | no skazka |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **describe** | infinitive | no pen |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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