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LEGENDS, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/) / 162 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 162 Scarcely had the youth had time to turn round and take a couple of steps, when he found himself under the water and in a white-stone palace--all its rooms splendidly furnished, cunningly decorated. **Who acts:** Scarcely, youth · **What happens:** have, turn round, take, find, furnish, decorate · **To what, where:** couple, youth, water, rooms 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 (Scarcely, youth), 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:pg22373:60:162 # text = Scarcely had the youth had time to turn round and take a couple of steps, when he found himself under the water and in a white-stone palace--all its rooms splendidly furnished, cunningly decorated. 1 Scarcely Scarcely PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ _ 9 round round ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 19 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 19 obj _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 appos _ _ 35 splendidly splendidly ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 furnished furnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 cunningly cunningly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 decorated decorate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Scarcely | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | past | the youth | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **turn round** | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | | | | | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | the youth *not said here* | a couple of steps | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | youth | youth | | the water and a white stone palace | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 6 | **furnish** | participle | | palace's rooms *not said here* | | | | splendidly *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **decorate** | participle | | | | | | cunningly *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/161/) - next →: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/60/163/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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