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description: In the original version of the story the wizard may, perhaps, have turned into a heap of gold (see above, p. 231, on "Gold-men"). Who acts: wizard. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 277

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In the original version of the story the wizard may, perhaps, have turned into a heap of gold (see above, p. 231, on "Gold-men").

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**Who acts:** wizard · **What happens:** turn, see · **To what, where:** original version, p.

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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: who acts (wizard), 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:pg22373:49:277
# text = In the original version of the story the wizard may, perhaps, have turned into a heap of gold (see above, p. 231, on "Gold-men").
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
23	above	above	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	231	231	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | may · perfect | the wizard |  |  | the original version of the story |  | into a heap of gold; perhaps *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in version=Source into heap=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | p. |  |  |  | on Gold men; above *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer p.=Stimulus |

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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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