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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 151

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When the hero has been killed by his brothers, and they have carried off the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_, and their victim's golden steed, and his betrothed princess--as long as he lies dead, the princess remains mute and mournful, the horse refuses to eat, the bird is silent, and its cage is lustreless.

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**Who acts:** brothers, king, princess, horse, bird, cage · **What happens:** kill, carry off, betroth, lie, remain, refuse · **To what, where:** hero

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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 (brothers, king, princess, horse), 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:pg22373:48:151
# text = When the hero has been killed by his brothers, and they have carried off the _Zhar-Ptitsa_, and their victim's golden steed, and his betrothed princess--as long as he lies dead, the princess remains mute and mournful, the horse refuses to eat, the bird is silent, and its cage is lustreless.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	mute	mute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	refuses	refuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	lustreless	lustreless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · perfect · passive | king's brothers | the hero |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **carry off** | present · perfect · passive |  | hero |  |  |  | off the Zhar Ptitsa and hero's victim's golden steed | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ptitsa=Value |
| 3 | **betroth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | present | king |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remain** | present | the princess |  |  |  |  | mute *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **refuse** | present | the horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **eat** | to-infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | present | the bird |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | present | horse's cage |  |  |  |  | lustreless *property* | tree rules |

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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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