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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Opening, sentence 8

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OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF RUSSIA, AUTHOR OF "THE SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE," "KRILOF AND HIS FABLES," ETC.

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**Who acts:** RUSSIAN PEOPLE · **What happens:** correspond, sing

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (RUSSIAN PEOPLE), 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:pg22373:1:8
# text = OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF RUSSIA, AUTHOR OF "THE SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE," "KRILOF AND HIS FABLES," ETC.
1	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	BRITISH	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	MUSEUM	MUSEUM	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	CORRESPONDING	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	MEMBER	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	IMPERIAL	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	GEOGRAPHICAL	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	SOCIETY	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	RUSSIA	RUSSIA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	AUTHOR	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	SONGS	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	RUSSIAN	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	PEOPLE	people	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	KRILOF	KRILOF	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
29	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	FABLES	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
34	ETC.	ETC.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	28	dep	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | the RUSSIAN PEOPLE |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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