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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 72

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According to an old Lithuanian tradition, the shape of the sole is due to the fact that the Queen of the Baltic Sea once ate one half of it and threw the other half into the sea again.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** accord, be, eat, throw · **To what, where:** one half, other half, sea

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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 (Queen), 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:pg22373:56:72
# text = According to an old Lithuanian tradition, the shape of the sole is due to the fact that the Queen of the Baltic Sea once ate one half of it and threw the other half into the sea again.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Lithuanian	lithuanian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sole	sole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	NNP	_	24	compound	_	_
24	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	32	obj	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | due the fact; accord a old Lithuanian tradition and the shape of the sole | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the Queen of the Baltic Sea | one half of half |  |  |  | once *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** | past | the Queen of the Baltic Sea *not said here* | the other half |  |  | again | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer half=Theme into sea=Result |

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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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