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title: In one case,[341] a king promises to give his daughter to anyone "wh… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In one case,[341] a king promises to give his daughter to anyone "who can pluck her portrait from the house, from the other side of ever so many beams." Who acts: king, daughter. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 97

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In one case,\[341\] a king promises to give his daughter to anyone "who can pluck her portrait from the house, from the other side of ever so many beams."

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**Who acts:** king, daughter · **What happens:** promise, give, pluck, portray · **To what, where:** one case, daughter, other side, portrait, house · **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 (king, daughter), 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:pg22373:45:97
# text = In one case,[341] a king promises to give his daughter to anyone "who can pluck her portrait from the house, from the other side of ever so many beams."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	341	341	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	promises	promise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	iobj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obl	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	portrait	portrait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | a king |  |  | one case |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a king *not said here* |  | King's daughter | the other side of many beams |  | to anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to anyone=Recipient |
| 3 | **pluck** *in a quote* | can |  | daughter's portrait |  | the house |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme from house=Source |
| 4 | **portray** *in a quote* |  | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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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