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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 144

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Priests are often nicknamed goats by the Russian peasantry, perhaps on account of their long beards.

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**Who acts:** Russian peasantry · **What happens:** nickname, account · **To what, where:** Priests, long beards

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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: who acts (Russian peasantry), 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:pg22373:18:144
# text = Priests are often nicknamed goats by the Russian peasantry, perhaps on account of their long beards.
1	Priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	xcomp	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nickname** | present · passive | the Russian peasantry | Priests |  |  |  | often *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **account** |  |  | goats's long beards |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: 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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