---
title: More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the follow… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the following story from India to China. Who acts: Hiouen. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/102/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/) / 102

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 102

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the following story from India to China.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Hiouen · **What happens:** transfer, follow · **To what, where:** following story, China, India

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiouen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:60:102
# text = More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the following story from India to China.
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Hiouen	Hiouen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Thsang	Thsang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
10	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transfer** | past | Hiouen | the following story | China | India |  | ago *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme to china=Destination from india=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/101/)
- next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/103/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/)