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LEGENDS, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/) / 86 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 86 But the Princess began to weep bitterly, and her scalding tears fell on the face of St. George and awoke him, and he slew the monster, and afterwards converted all the inhabitants of Troyan to Christianity. **Who acts:** Princess, scalding · **What happens:** begin, weep, be, fall, awake, slay · **To what, where:** scalding, face, monster 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 (Princess, scalding), 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:pg22373:58:86 # text = But the Princess began to weep bitterly, and her scalding tears fell on the face of St. George and awoke him, and he slew the monster, and afterwards converted all the inhabitants of Troyan to Christianity. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 scalding scalding NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 tears tear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 13 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:desc _ _ 19 George George PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 monster monster NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 converted converted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 inhabitants inhabitant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 parataxis _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Troyan Troyan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 Christianity Christianity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the Princess | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **weep** | to-infinitive | the Princess *not said here* | | | | | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | | Princess's scalding | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **fall** | past | Princess's scalding | | | the face of George St. | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | | 5 | **awake** | past | Princess's scalding *not said here* | scalding | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 6 | **slay** | past | scalding | the monster | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/87/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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