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description: V. Scott mentions a story in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," vol. ii. p. 223, of a widower who believed he was haunted by his dead wife. Who acts: V., widower, dead wife. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 59

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V. Scott mentions a story in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," vol. ii. p. 223, of a widower who believed he was haunted by his dead wife.

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**Who acts:** V., widower, dead wife · **What happens:** mention, believe, haunt · **To what, where:** story, Minstrelsy, V. · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (V., widower, dead wife), 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:pg22373:18:59
# text = V. Scott mentions a story in "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," vol. ii. p. 223, of a widower who believed he was haunted by his dead wife.
1	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Scott	Scott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Minstrelsy	Minstrelsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Border	Border	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	vol.	vol.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
17	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
20	223	223	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	widower	widower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	haunted	haunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | V. | a story |  | the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border |  | of a widower | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 2 | **believe** | past | a widower |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **haunt** | past · passive | V.'s dead wife | V. |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |

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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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