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description: Sometimes, as St. George, he transfixes monsters with his lance; sometimes, as St. Andrew, he smites with his mace a spot given over to witchcraft. Who acts: wielder. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tre
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 31

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Sometimes, as St. George, he transfixes monsters with his lance; sometimes, as St. Andrew, he smites with his mace a spot given over to witchcraft.

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**Who acts:** wielder · **What happens:** transfix, smite, give over · **To what, where:** monsters, spot, witchcraft

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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 (wielder), 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:pg22373:58:31
# text = Sometimes, as St. George, he transfixes monsters with his lance; sometimes, as St. Andrew, he smites with his mace a spot given over to witchcraft.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	transfixes	transfix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:desc	_	_
18	Andrew	Andrew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smites	smite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfix** | present | wielder | monsters |  |  |  | as George  St.; with wielder's lance; sometimes *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monster=Experiencer |
| 2 | **smite** | present | wielder | a spot |  |  |  | as Andrew  St.; with wielder's mace; sometimes *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent spot=Patient with mace=Instrument |
| 3 | **give over** | participle |  | a spot *not said here* | witchcraft |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to witchcraft=Recipient |

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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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