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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 115

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The Medea's cauldron episode occurs in very many folk-tales, such as the German "Bruder Lustig" (Grimm, No. 81) and "Das junge gegluehte Maennlein" (Grimm, No. 147), in the latter of which our Lord, accompanied by St. Peter, spends a night in a Smith's house, and makes an old beggar-man young by first placing him in the fire, and then plunging him into water.

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**Who acts:** cauldron episode, Lord · **What happens:** occur, accompany, spend, make, place, plunge · **To what, where:** many folk tales, Lord, house, old beggar man, man, fire

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cauldron episode, Lord), 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:pg22373:59:115
# text = The Medea's cauldron episode occurs in very many folk-tales, such as the German "Bruder Lustig" (Grimm, No. 81) and "Das junge gegluehte Maennlein" (Grimm, No. 147), in the latter of which our Lord, accompanied by St. Peter, spends a night in a Smith's house, and makes an old beggar-man young by first placing him in the fire, and then plunging him into water.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Medea	Medea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	episode	episode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Bruder	Bruder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Lustig	Lustig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	26	nmod:unmarked	_	_
26	81	81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Das	Das	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	junge	junge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
32	gegluehte	gegluehte	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	33	flat:foreign	_	_
33	Maennlein	Maennlein	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	147	147	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	latter	latter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	obl	_	_
47	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nmod:desc	_	_
53	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
55	spends	spend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	's	's	PART	POS	_	60	case	_	_
62	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
66	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
67	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
68	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	68	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obj	_	_
71	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	xcomp	_	_
72	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	74	mark	_	_
73	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	74	advmod	_	_
74	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	65	advcl	_	_
75	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	74	obj	_	_
76	in	in	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	74	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	82	punct	_	_
80	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	82	cc	_	_
81	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	82	advmod	_	_
82	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	74	conj	_	_
83	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	82	obj	_	_
84	into	into	ADP	IN	_	85	case	_	_
85	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
86	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the Medea's cauldron episode |  |  | many folk tales such the German Bruder Lustig and Das junge and gegluehte Maennlein and the latter |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  | our Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spend** | present | our Lord |  |  | a Smith's house | night | of the latter | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | the Medea's cauldron episode *not said here* | a old beggar man |  |  |  | young *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product |
| 5 | **place** | gerund | the Medea's cauldron episode *not said here* | man |  | the fire |  | first *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in fire=Destination |
| 6 | **plunge** | gerund | the Medea's cauldron episode *not said here* | man |  | water | then |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |

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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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