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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 49

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In that country, also, the King had a daughter at the point of death, and he had given notice that whoever cured his daughter should have half of his kingdom and of his goods and possessions; but if he failed to cure her he should have his head chopped off and hung up on a stake.

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**Who acts:** King, whoever, notice, head · **What happens:** have, give, cure, fail, not cure, chop off · **To what, where:** daughter, country, King, notice, half, stake

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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 (King, whoever, notice, head), 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:pg22373:59:49
# text = In that country, also, the King had a daughter at the point of death, and he had given notice that whoever cured his daughter should have half of his kingdom and of his goods and possessions; but if he failed to cure her he should have his head chopped off and hung up on a stake.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
22	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
24	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	cured	cure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	30	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	failed	fail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	advcl	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
53	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	parataxis	_	_
54	off	off	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	conj	_	_
57	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the King | a daughter |  | that country |  | at the point of death | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | King |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** | past | whoever | notice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | should | notice | half of notice's kingdom and notice's goods and possessions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 5 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **not** **cure** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | daughter |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source |
| 7 | **have** | should | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **chop off** | past | notice's head |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **hang up** | past | notice's head *not said here* |  |  | a stake |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stake=Location |
| 10 | **point** |  |  | death |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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