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description: A kind of lilt is perceptible in many of the Skazkas, and traces of rhyme are often to be detected in them, but "The Mizgir's" mould is different from theirs. Who acts: kind, Mizgir mould. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 77

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A kind of lilt is perceptible in many of the Skazkas, and traces of rhyme are often to be detected in them, but "The Mizgir's" mould is different from theirs.

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**Who acts:** kind, Mizgir mould · **What happens:** be, detect · **To what, where:** many, traces

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind, Mizgir mould), 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:pg22373:17:77
# text = A kind of lilt is perceptible in many of the Skazkas, and traces of rhyme are often to be detected in them, but "The Mizgir's" mould is different from theirs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lilt	lilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	perceptible	perceptible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
18	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	detected	detect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Mizgir	Mizgir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
31	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **is** | present | a kind of lilt |  |  | many of the Skazkas |  | perceptible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **detect** | present · passive |  | traces of rhyme |  |  |  | in gnats *= gnat*; often *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Mizgir mould |  |  |  |  | from traces *= trace*; different *property* | tree rules |

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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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