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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 2

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The following skazka has been selected on account of the descriptions of a \_vechernitsa\_, or village \_soiree\_,\[17\] and of a rustic courtship, which its opening scene contains.

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**Who acts:** opening scene · **What happens:** follow, select, contain, account, describe · **To what, where:** skazka, account, rustic courtship, descriptions, vechernitsa

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening scene), 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:pg22373:12:2
# text = The following skazka has been selected on account of the descriptions of a _vechernitsa_, or village _soiree_,[17] and of a rustic courtship, which its opening scene contains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	case	_	_
3	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	vechernitsa	vechernitsa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	soiree	soiree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	rustic	rustic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	courtship	courtship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obj	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **select** | present · perfect · passive |  | the skazka |  | account of the descriptions of a vechernitsa |  | village and a rustic courtship *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | present | courtship's opening scene | a rustic courtship |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | the descriptions of a vechernitsa |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **describe** |  |  | a vechernitsa |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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