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title: As the clock strikes twelve the prince, who is laden with chains, ma… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the clock strikes twelve the prince, who is laden with chains, makes a rush at her; but the wings of the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ rustle around her, and he sits down again. Who acts: clock, wings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 118

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As the clock strikes twelve the prince, who is laden with chains, makes a rush at her; but the wings of the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_ rustle around her, and he sits down again.

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**Who acts:** clock, wings · **What happens:** strike, lade, make, sit down · **To what, where:** twelve, prince, rush

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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 (clock, wings), 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:pg22373:48:118
# text = As the clock strikes twelve the prince, who is laden with chains, makes a rush at her; but the wings of the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ rustle around her, and he sits down again.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
26	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
31	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
32	around	around	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	down	down	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | present | the clock | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient prince=Result |
| 2 | **lade** | present · passive |  | the prince |  |  |  | with chains | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present | the clock *not said here* | a rush |  |  |  | at princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product |
| 4 | **sit down** | present | the wings of the Zhar rustle around princess |  |  |  | again |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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