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LEGENDS, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/) / 118 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 118 In another Norse tale, that of "Peik" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 101, p. 219) a king is induced to kill his wife and his daughter in the mistaken belief that he will be able to restore them to life. **Who acts:** No. · **What happens:** induce, kill, be, restore · **To what, where:** that, Norse tale, wife, mistaken belief, Asbjoernsen, life 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 (No.), 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:pg22373:59:118 # text = In another Norse tale, that of "Peik" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 101, p. 219) a king is induced to kill his wife and his daughter in the mistaken belief that he will be able to restore them to life. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 3 Norse norse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Peik Peik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Asbjoernsen Asbjoernsen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ _ 15 Series Series PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 No. No. PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 18 101 101 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 21 219 219 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 list _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 induced induce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 mistaken mistaken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 belief belief NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 restore restore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obj _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **induce** | present · passive | | that | | another Norse tale | | of Peik | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | | No.'s wife and No.'s daughter | | the mistaken belief | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | | 3 | **is** | future | No. | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **restore** | to-infinitive | No. *not said here* | Asbjoernsen | life | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient | 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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/59/119/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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