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description: As she went roaming about the palace she came to a cage "in which a _Zhar-Ptitsa_,[369] lay [as if] dead." Who acts: Mamzeli, Zhar. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 102

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As she went roaming about the palace she came to a cage "in which a \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_,\[369\] lay \[as if\] dead."

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**Who acts:** Mamzeli, Zhar · **What happens:** go, roam, come, lay · **To what, where:** cage, palace · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mamzeli, Zhar), 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:pg22373:48:102
# text = As she went roaming about the palace she came to a cage "in which a _Zhar-Ptitsa_,[369] lay [as if] dead."
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	roaming	roam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	369	369	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
26	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Mamzeli |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **roam** | gerund | Mamzeli *not said here* |  |  | a cage |  | about the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cage=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | Mamzeli | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | infinitive | a Zhar and Ptitsa |  |  | a cage |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination |

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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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