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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 10

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And in their treatments of these subjects they offer very few novel features.

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**Who acts:** pivots · **What happens:** offer, treat · **To what, where:** few novel features, treatments, subjects

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pivots), 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:pg22373:15:10
# text = And in their treatments of these subjects they offer very few novel features.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	treatments	treatment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	offer	offer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	novel	novel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | present | pivots *= pivot* | few novel features |  | pivots's treatments of this subjects |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent feature=Theme |
| 2 | **treat** |  | pivots *= pivot* | this subjects |  |  |  |  | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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