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title: Its feathers blaze with silvery or golden sheen, its eyes shine like… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Its feathers blaze with silvery or golden sheen, its eyes shine like crystal, it dwells in a golden cage. Who acts: feathers, eyes, notice. 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 e
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 135

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Its feathers blaze with silvery or golden sheen, its eyes shine like crystal, it dwells in a golden cage.

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**Who acts:** feathers, eyes, notice · **What happens:** blaze, shine, dwell · **To what, where:** golden cage

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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 (feathers, eyes, notice), 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:pg22373:48:135
# text = Its feathers blaze with silvery or golden sheen, its eyes shine like crystal, it dwells in a golden cage.
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blaze	blaze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	sheen	sheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	dwells	dwell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blaze** | present | notice's feathers |  |  |  |  | with silvery sheen | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sheen=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | present | notice's eyes |  |  |  |  | like crystal | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | present | notice |  |  | a golden cage |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location |

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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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