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description: Aided by a wolf, he reaches the garden in which the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ lives, and succeeds in taking it out of its golden cage. Who acts: king. 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 ev
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 147

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Aided by a wolf, he reaches the garden in which the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_ lives, and succeeds in taking it out of its golden cage.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** aid, reach, life, succeed, take · **To what, where:** garden, 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 (king), 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:pg22373:48:147
# text = Aided by a wolf, he reaches the garden in which the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ lives, and succeeds in taking it out of its golden cage.
1	Aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
18	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a wolf | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | present | king | the garden |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 3 | **life** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **succeed** | present | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | king *not said here* | garden |  | garden's golden cage |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out cage=Initial\_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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