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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 78

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Many stories also exist in an artificially versified form, but their movement differs entirely from that of the naturally cadenced periods of the ordinary Skazka, or of such rhymed prose as that of "The Mizgir."

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**Who acts:** Many stories, movement, traces · **What happens:** exist, versify, differ, cadence, rhyme, move · **To what, where:** versified form

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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 (Many stories, movement, traces), 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:pg22373:17:78
# text = Many stories also exist in an artificially versified form, but their movement differs entirely from that of the naturally cadenced periods of the ordinary Skazka, or of such rhymed prose as that of "The Mizgir."
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	artificially	artificially	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	versified	versify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	differs	differ	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	cadenced	cadence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	periods	period	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Mizgir	Mizgir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | Many stories |  |  | a versified form |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **versify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | artificially *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **differ** | present | traces's movement |  |  |  |  | of such rhymed prose as that of the Mizgir; from that; entirely *property* | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from that=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **cadence** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | naturally *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rhyme** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **move** |  | traces *= trace* |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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