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description: [68] In another story bearing the same title (v. 39) the spider lies on its back awaiting its prey. Who acts: story, same title, spider, back. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 157

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\[68\] In another story bearing the same title (v. 39) the spider lies on its back awaiting its prey.

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**Who acts:** story, same title, spider, back · **What happens:** bear, v., lie, await · **To what, where:** same title, 39, back, prey

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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 (story, same title, spider, back), 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:pg22373:18:157
# text = [68] In another story bearing the same title (v. 39) the spider lies on its back awaiting its prey.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	68	68	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	v.	v.	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	39	39	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | gerund | another story *not said here* | the same title |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient |
| 2 | **v.** | infinitive | the same title *not said here* | 39 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the spider |  |  | spider's back |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location |
| 4 | **await** | gerund | spider's back *not said here* | spider's prey |  |  |  |  | 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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