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description: I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived. Who acts: I, Whittington, tale. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 122

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I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived.

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**Who acts:** I, Whittington, tale · **What happens:** choose, derive, vary · **To what, where:** one, Cat

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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 (I, Whittington, tale), 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:pg22373:15:122
# text = I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | present · perfect | I | one of the variants of a tale from the variants of a tale |  |  |  | for that purpose | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **derive** | present · perfect · passive | Whittington *not said here* | Whittington's Cat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **vary** |  | a tale from the variants of a tale from the variants of a tale |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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