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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 21

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An excellent illustration of this statement is offered by the contrast between the Slavonic group of supernatural beings of this class and their equivalents in lands tenanted by non-Slavonic members of the Indo-European family.

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**Who acts:** contrast, class · **What happens:** offer, tenant, illustrate, be · **To what, where:** excellent illustration, lands, statement

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrast, class), 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:pg22373:19:21
# text = An excellent illustration of this statement is offered by the contrast between the Slavonic group of supernatural beings of this class and their equivalents in lands tenanted by non-Slavonic members of the Indo-European family.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	equivalents	equivalent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	tenanted	tenant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	non-Slavonic	non-slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl:agent	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	Indo	Indo	X	AFX	_	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **offer** | present · passive | the contrast between the Slavonic group of supernatural beings of this class and groups's equivalents in lands | a excellent illustration of this statement |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tenant** | participle |  | lands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **illustrate** |  |  | this statement |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **be** |  | this class |  |  |  |  |  | nom being «state intransitive»: of=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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