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title: A soldier is a man who belongs to the crown, and 'crown property can… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A soldier is a man who belongs to the crown, and 'crown property cannot be drowned in water nor burnt in fire.' Who acts: soldier, man. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 178

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A soldier is a man who belongs to the crown, and 'crown property cannot be drowned in water nor burnt in fire.'

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**Who acts:** soldier, man · **What happens:** be, belong, not drown, burnt · **To what, where:** man, crown property, water, fire

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, man), 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:pg22373:53:178
# text = A soldier is a man who belongs to the crown, and 'crown property cannot be drowned in water nor burnt in fire.'
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc	_	_
23	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a soldier | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | present | a man |  |  |  |  | to the crown | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **drown** | can · passive | a man *not said here* | crown property |  | water |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **burnt** | participle | a man *not said here* |  |  | fire |  |  | 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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