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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 49

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A hunter, who had been similarly doomed, went on killing wolves for some time, and hanging up their skins; but when the fatal hour arrived, one of the skins became a wolf, and slew him by whom it had before been slain.

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**Who acts:** hunter, fatal hour, skins, fate · **What happens:** doom, go, kill, hang up, arrive, become · **To what, where:** hunter, wolves, skins, one, wolf, slain

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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 (hunter, fatal hour, skins, 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:pg22373:58:49
# text = A hunter, who had been similarly doomed, went on killing wolves for some time, and hanging up their skins; but when the fatal hour arrived, one of the skins became a wolf, and slew him by whom it had before been slain.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	similarly	similarly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
41	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	before	before	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	cop	_	_
48	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doom** | past · perfect · passive |  | a hunter |  |  |  | similarly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | past | a hunter |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | a hunter *not said here* | wolves |  |  | time |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
| 4 | **hang up** | gerund | a hunter *not said here* | wolves's skins |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 5 | **arrive** | past | the fatal hour | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | past | the skins | a wolf |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **slay** | past | the fatal hour *not said here* | hunter |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 8 | **have** | past | fate |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **is a** | participle |  | slain |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |

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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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