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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 9

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In a Ryazan variant of the story,\[327\] Ivan Dearly-Bought, after his legs have been cut off at the knees, and he has been left in a forest, is found by a giant who has no arms, but who is so fleet that "no post could catch him up."

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**Who acts:** Ivan, post, story · **What happens:** buy, cut off, leave, find, have, be · **To what, where:** legs, knees, Ivan, forest, Ryazan variant, arms · **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 (Ivan, post, story), 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:pg22373:45:9
# text = In a Ryazan variant of the story,[327] Ivan Dearly-Bought, after his legs have been cut off at the knees, and he has been left in a forest, is found by a giant who has no arms, but who is so fleet that "no post could catch him up."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Ryazan	Ryazan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	327	327	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
12	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	Dearly	dearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
39	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	nsubj	_	_
43	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	ccomp	_	_
44	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
45	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	55	det	_	_
55	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	up	up	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | participle | Ivan |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cut off** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ivan's legs |  | the knees |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | present · perfect · passive |  | Ivan |  | a forest |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in forest=Location |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  |  |  | a Ryazan variant of the story |  | giant *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | no arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fleet *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **catch up** *in a quote* | could | no post | Ivan |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **vary** |  | the story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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