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LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/) / 38 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 38 A Little-Russian variant of this story says that Ilya (Elijah), was so angry at seeing the base uses to which a woman turned "God's corn," that he began to destroy all the corn in the world. **Who acts:** Russian variant, Ilya, woman, story · **What happens:** say, be, see, use, turn, begin · **To what, where:** base, corn, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian variant, Ilya, woman, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:56:38 # text = A Little-Russian variant of this story says that Ilya (Elijah), was so angry at seeing the base uses to which a woman turned "God's corn," that he began to destroy all the corn in the world. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 variant variant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 11 Ilya Ilya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Elijah Elijah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 advcl _ _ 19 at at SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 seeing see VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 's 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a Russian variant of this story | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | Ilya | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | gerund | Ilya *not said here* | the base | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer base=Stimulus | | 4 | **use** | present | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **turn** | past | a woman | God's corn | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corn=Theme to which=Trajectory | | 6 | **begin** | past | Ilya | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **destroy** | to-infinitive | Ilya *not said here* | all corn | | the world | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient | | 8 | **vary** | | this story | | | | | | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/39/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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