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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 51

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And so at the present day, according to Russian tradition, the Prophet Ilya thunders across the sky in a flaming car, and smites the clouds with the darts of the lightning.

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**Who acts:** Prophet Ilya · **What happens:** accord, thunder, smite · **To what, where:** sky, clouds

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prophet Ilya), 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:pg22373:57:51
# text = And so at the present day, according to Russian tradition, the Prophet Ilya thunders across the sky in a flaming car, and smites the clouds with the darts of the lightning.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Ilya	Ilya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thunders	thunder	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	flaming	flaming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	smites	smite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **thunder** | present | the Prophet Ilya |  |  | the sky | day | in a flaming car | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location |
| 3 | **smite** | present | the Prophet Ilya *not said here* | the clouds |  |  |  | with the darts of the lightning | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient with dart=Instrument |

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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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