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description: Koshchei the Deathless, The Stealer of Fair Princesses--his connexion with Punchkin and "the Giant who had no Heart in his Body"--Excursus on Bluebeard's Chamber; 4. Who acts: connexion. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, sentence 6

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Koshchei the Deathless, The Stealer of Fair Princesses--his connexion with Punchkin and "the Giant who had no Heart in his Body"--Excursus on Bluebeard's Chamber; 4.

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**Who acts:** connexion · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** Heart, Body

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (connexion), 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:pg22373:5:6
# text = Koshchei the Deathless, The Stealer of Fair Princesses--his connexion with Punchkin and "the Giant who had no Heart in his Body"--Excursus on Bluebeard's Chamber; 4.
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Stealer	stealer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	connexion	connexion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	Heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	Body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Excursus	Excursus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	Bluebeard	Bluebeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	Chamber	Chamber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Lord's connexion with Punchkin | no Heart |  | Lord's Body |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

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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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