---
title: When the veil was lifted, she cried in astonishment "Can such beauty… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: When the veil was lifted, she cried in astonishment "Can such beauty be?" and determined to fly on the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ to the original of the picture. Who acts: Mamzeli. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/105/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/) / 105

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 105

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
When the veil was lifted, she cried in astonishment "Can such beauty be?" and determined to fly on the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_ to the original of the picture.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mamzeli · **What happens:** lift, cry, fly · **To what, where:** veil, such beauty, Zhar

<!-- .vabout -->
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:48:105
# text = When the veil was lifted, she cried in astonishment "Can such beauty be?" and determined to fly on the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ to the original of the picture.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	punct	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | past · passive |  | the veil |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mamzeli | such beauty |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Topic |
| 3 | **fly** | to-infinitive | Mamzeli *not said here* |  |  | the Zhar and Ptitsa |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on zhar=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/104/)
- next →: [sentence 106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/106/)
- ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/)