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title: The _Zhar-Ptitsa_ recommences its magic song, and its cage flashes a… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The _Zhar-Ptitsa_ recommences its magic song, and its cage flashes anew like fire. Who acts: Zhar _, cage, horse. 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 every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 153

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The \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_ recommences its magic song, and its cage flashes anew like fire.

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**Who acts:** Zhar \_, cage, horse · **What happens:** recommence, flash, sing · **To what, where:** magic song

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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 (Zhar \_, cage, 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:pg22373:48:153
# text = The _Zhar-Ptitsa_ recommences its magic song, and its cage flashes anew like fire.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	recommences	recommence	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flashes	flash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	anew	anew	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommence** | present | the Zhar \_ | horse's magic song |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 2 | **flash** | present | horse's cage |  |  |  |  | like fire; anew *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** |  | horse |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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