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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 118

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\[54\] This story is known to the Finns, but with them the Russian Demon, (\_chortenok\_ = a little \_chort\_ or devil), has become the Plague.

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**What happens:** know, become · **To what, where:** story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:18:118
# text = [54] This story is known to the Finns, but with them the Russian Demon, (_chortenok_ = a little _chort_ or devil), has become the Plague.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	54	54	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Finns	finn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	chortenok	chortenok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
23	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	_	_	X	GW	_	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	chort	chort	X	NN	_	26	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Plague	Plague	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **know** | present · passive |  | this story |  |  |  | to the Finns; 54 *obl*; the Russian Demon with Finns *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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