--- title: Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79;… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79; story of the Water Snake, 126; Snake Husbands, 129; legend about the Common Snake, 334; likeness between Snakes and Demons, 380 A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/26/) [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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/) / 26 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 26 Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79; story of the Water Snake, 126; Snake Husbands, 129; legend about the Common Snake, 334; likeness between Snakes and Demons, 380 This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:63:26 # text = Snake, the mythical, his appearance, 78; story of Ivan Popyalof, 79; story of the Water Snake, 126; Snake Husbands, 129; legend about the Common Snake, 334; likeness between Snakes and Demons, 380 1 Snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mythical mythical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 78 78 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Ivan Ivan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 Popyalof Popyalof PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 79 79 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 126 126 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 Husbands husband NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 129 129 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 32 about about ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 Common Common PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Snake Snake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 334 334 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 31 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 likeness likeness NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 40 between between ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 Demons demon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 380 380 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/27/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/)