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LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/) / 108 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 108 But when the Rishi saw his bride he was discontented, and when he heard that her elder and fairer sisters had all refused him, he pronounced a curse which made all ninety-nine of them humpbacks, and so destroyed their chance of marrying at all. **Who acts:** Rishi, elder, curse, chance · **What happens:** see, discontent, hear, have, refuse, pronounce · **To what, where:** bride, Rishi, curse, nine humpbacks, chance, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Rishi, elder, curse, chance), 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:pg22373:60:108 # text = But when the Rishi saw his bride he was discontented, and when he heard that her elder and fairer sisters had all refused him, he pronounced a curse which made all ninety-nine of them humpbacks, and so destroyed their chance of marrying at all. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Rishi Rishi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 discontented discontent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 elder elder NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 fairer fair ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 amod _ _ 21 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl _ _ 23 all all ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 refused refuse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 pronounced pronounce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 39 det _ _ 34 ninety ninety NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 so so ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 destroyed destroy VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 44 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 of of SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 47 marrying marry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 45 acl _ _ 48 at at ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the Rishi | Rishi's bride | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus | | 2 | **discontent** | past · passive | | Rishi | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hear** | past | Rishi | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | past | bride's elder and fairer sisters *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **refuse** | past | bride's elder and fairer sisters | Rishi | | | | all *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **pronounce** | past | Rishi | a curse | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | | 7 | **make** | past | a curse | all nine humpbacks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset humpback=Product | | 8 | **destroy** | past | Rishi *not said here* | elder's chance | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | | 9 | **marry** | gerund | elder's chance *not said here* | | | all | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 10 | **chance** | | elder | | | | | | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/109/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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