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title: No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power use… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power uses it to turn a Maiden princess into a mother. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, 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 8, sentence 218

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No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power uses it to turn a Maiden princess into a mother.

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**What happens:** bestow, use, turn · **To what, where:** pike, power, Maiden princess

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:49:218
# text = No. 31) the man on whom the pike has bestowed supernatural power uses it to turn a Maiden princess into a mother.
1	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	31	31	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bestow** | present · perfect · passive |  | the pike |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | present |  | power |  |  |  | on the man | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **turn** | to-infinitive |  | a Maiden princess |  |  |  | into a mother *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent princess=Theme into mother=Result |

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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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