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LEGENDS, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/) / 74 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 74 At the time of the Angelical Salutation, the Blessed Virgin told the Archangel Gabriel that she would give credit to his words "if a fish, one side of which had already been eaten, were to come to life again. **Who acts:** Blessed Virgin, Virgin, fish, Devil · **What happens:** tell, give, eat, come, word · **To what, where:** Archangel Gabriel, credit, words, life · **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 (Blessed Virgin, Virgin, fish, Devil), 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:pg22373:56:74 # text = At the time of the Angelical Salutation, the Blessed Virgin told the Archangel Gabriel that she would give credit to his words "if a fish, one side of which had already been eaten, were to come to life again. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Angelical Angelical PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Salutation salutation NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Blessed blessed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Virgin Virgin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 Archangel Archangel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 Gabriel Gabriel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 iobj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 20 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 obl _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 already already ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 43 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Blessed Virgin | | the Archangel Gabriel | | time | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent gabriel=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **give** | would | Virgin | credit | Devil's words | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credit=Theme to word=Recipient | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | past · perfect · passive | | | | | | of one side | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: of which=Source | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | a fish and one side | | | life | again | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **word** | | Devil | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/56/75/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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