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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 48

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A man, to whom such a fate had been allotted, tried to escape from his assailants by hiding behind a stove; but a wolf transformed itself into a cat, and at midnight, when all was still, it stole into the house and seized the appointed prey.

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**Who acts:** man, wolf, all, fate · **What happens:** allot, try, escape, hide, transform, be · **To what, where:** fate, man, assailants, stove, house, appointed prey

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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 (man, wolf, all, fate), 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:pg22373:58:48
# text = A man, to whom such a fate had been allotted, tried to escape from his assailants by hiding behind a stove; but a wolf transformed itself into a cat, and at midnight, when all was still, it stole into the house and seized the appointed prey.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	assailants	assailant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	transformed	transform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	41	mark	_	_
39	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	amod	_	_
52	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **allot** | past · perfect · passive |  | such fate | a man |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to whom=Goal |
| 2 | **try** | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **escape** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  | man's assailants |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from assailant=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **hide** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  | a stove |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stove=Location |
| 5 | **transform** | past | a wolf | fate |  |  |  | into a cat *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into cat=Result |
| 6 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **steal** | past | fate |  |  | the house |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **seize** | past | a wolf *not said here* | the appointed prey |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |
| 9 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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