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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 70

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On the other hand the snake (\_uzh\_, the harmless or common snake) is highly esteemed, for tradition says that when the Devil, in the form of a mouse, had gnawed a hole in the Ark, and thereby endangered the safety of Noah and his family, the snake stopped up the leak with its head.

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**Who acts:** tradition, snake · **What happens:** esteem, say, gnaw, endanger, stop up, form · **To what, where:** snake, other hand, Devil, safety, leak, mouse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tradition, snake), 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:pg22373:56:70
# text = On the other hand the snake (_uzh_, the harmless or common snake) is highly esteemed, for tradition says that when the Devil, in the form of a mouse, had gnawed a hole in the Ark, and thereby endangered the safety of Noah and his family, the snake stopped up the leak with its head.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	uzh	uzh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	highly	highly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	esteemed	esteem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
26	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	38	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Ark	Ark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	endangered	endanger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	conj	_	_
59	up	up	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	leak	leak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	with	with	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **esteem** | present · passive |  | the snake |  | the other hand |  | highly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | tradition |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **gnaw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Devil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **endanger** | past |  | the safety of Noah and Devil's family |  |  |  | thereby *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stop up** | past | the snake | the leak |  |  |  | with snake's head | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent leak=Destination with head=Theme |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | a mouse |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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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