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description: In the German story of "Die sieben Raben" (Grimm, No. 25) a father's "hasty word" turns his six sons into ravens.] Who acts: father. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 66

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In the German story of "Die sieben Raben" (Grimm, No. 25) a father's "hasty word" turns his six sons into ravens.\]

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** die, turn · **To what, where:** Raben, German story, six sons, ravens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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:pg22373:61:66
# text = In the German story of "Die sieben Raben" (Grimm, No. 25) a father's "hasty word" turns his six sons into ravens.]
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sieben	sieben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:desc	_	_
9	Raben	Raben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ravens	raven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | imperative |  | Raben  sieben |  | the German story |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a father | father's six sons |  | ravens |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent son=Theme into raven=Trajectory |

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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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