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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 61

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One of the most curious of the stories which relate to a village burial,--one in which also the feeling with which the Russian villagers sometimes regard their clergy finds expression--is that called--

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**Who acts:** stories, Russian villagers, feeling · **What happens:** relate, regard, find, call · **To what, where:** clergy, expression · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, Russian villagers, feeling), 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:pg22373:13:61
# text = One of the most curious of the stories which relate to a village burial,--one in which also the feeling with which the Russian villagers sometimes regard their clergy finds expression--is that called--
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	villagers	villager	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
29	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
33	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | to a village burial | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to burial=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | present | the Russian villagers | villagers's clergy |  |  |  | with the feeling; sometimes *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clergy=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | present | the feeling | expression |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Topic |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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