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description: Above all we become familiar with those cottage interiors to which the stories contain so many references. Who acts: we, stories. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 49

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Above all we become familiar with those cottage interiors to which the stories contain so many references.

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**Who acts:** we, stories · **What happens:** become, contain · **To what, where:** all, many references

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, stories), 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:pg22373:11:49
# text = Above all we become familiar with those cottage interiors to which the stories contain so many references.
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	interiors	interior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | we |  |  | all |  | familiar *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **contain** | present | the stories | many references |  |  |  | to that cottage interiors | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reference=Theme |

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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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