--- title: Then the princess, thinking it was really dead, buried it in the ear… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Then the princess, thinking it was really dead, buried it in the earth--having first cut off its wings, and "attached them to herself so as to walk more lightly." Who acts: princess, rider. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, rider), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:48:112 # text = Then the princess, thinking it was really dead, buried it in the earth--having first cut off its wings, and "attached them to herself so as to walk more lightly." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 thinking think VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 really really ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 having have VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 18 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 advmod _ _ 19 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 xcomp _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 attached attach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obl _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ _ 34 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 advmod _ _ 35 lightly lightly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the princess *not said here* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | rider | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bury** | past | the princess | rider | | the earth | then | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in earth=Destination | | 4 | **have** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cut off** | participle | the princess *not said here* | rider's wings | | | | first *property* | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector wing=Eventuality | | 6 | **attach** *in a quote* | past | the princess *not said here* | wings *= wing* | princess | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to herself=Co-Patient | | 7 | **walk** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the princess *not said here* | | | | | lightly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/113/) - ↑ back to [Magic and Witchcraft., part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/48/)