--- title: But after a while a misfortune befell the land in which he lived, fo… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: But after a while a misfortune befell the land in which he lived, for "an evil witch enchanted the king's daughter, who lay dead all day long, but at night got up and ate people." Who acts: misfortune, evil witch, daughter. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/126/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/) / 126 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 126 But after a while a misfortune befell the land in which he lived, for "an evil witch enchanted the king's daughter, who lay dead all day long, but at night got up and ate people." **Who acts:** misfortune, evil witch, daughter · **What happens:** befall, live, enchant, lay, get up, eat · **To what, where:** land, people This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (misfortune, evil witch, daughter), 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:pg22373:58:126 # text = But after a while a misfortune befell the land in which he lived, for "an evil witch enchanted the king's daughter, who lay dead all day long, but at night got up and ate people." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 befell befall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 enchanted enchant VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 28 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 36 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 40 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **befall** | past | a misfortune | the land | | | while | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | past | misfortune | | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 3 | **enchant** *in a quote* | past | a evil witch | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | present | the king's daughter | | | | day | dead, long *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | | | | | night | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | | people | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | 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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/127/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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