--- title: [431] According to a Bohemian legend the Devil created the mouse, th… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [431] According to a Bohemian legend the Devil created the mouse, that it might destroy "God's corn," whereupon the Lord created the cat. Who acts: Devil, mouse, Lord. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/54/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/) / 54 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 54 \[431\] According to a Bohemian legend the Devil created the mouse, that it might destroy "God's corn," whereupon the Lord created the cat. **Who acts:** Devil, mouse, Lord · **What happens:** accord, create, destroy · **To what, where:** 431, corn, cat This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Devil, mouse, Lord), 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:pg22373:62:54 # text = [431] According to a Bohemian legend the Devil created the mouse, that it might destroy "God's corn," whereupon the Lord created the cat. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 431 431 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 4 According accord VERB VBG ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 case _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 4 fixed _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Bohemian bohemian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Devil Devil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 created create VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 25 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 created create VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accord** | gerund | | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **create** | past | the Devil | 431 accord a Bohemian legend | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Result | | 3 | **destroy** | might | mouse | God's corn | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument corn=Patient | | 4 | **create** | past | the Lord | the cat | | | | whereupon *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Result | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/55/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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