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description: There is one marked feature in the Russian peasant's character to which the Skazkas frequently refer--his passion for drink. Who acts: one marked feature, Skazkas. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, with its dependency tr
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 44

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There is one marked feature in the Russian peasant's character to which the Skazkas frequently refer--his passion for drink.

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**Who acts:** one marked feature, Skazkas · **What happens:** be, mark, refer · **To what, where:** character

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one marked feature, Skazkas), 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:pg22373:14:44
# text = There is one marked feature in the Russian peasant's character to which the Skazkas frequently refer--his passion for drink.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one marked feature |  |  | the Russian peasant's character and feature's passion for drink; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in character=Location |
| 2 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **refer** | present | the Skazkas |  |  |  |  | to the Russian peasant's character and feature's passion for drink; frequently *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-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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