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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 24

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If the powers of darkness in the "mythical" skazkas are divided into two groups--the one male, the other female--there stand out as the most prominent figures in the former set, the Snake (or some other illustration of "Zoological Mythology"), Koshchei the Deathless, and the Morskoi Tsar or King of the Waters.

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**What happens:** divide, stand out, illustrate · **To what, where:** powers, two groups, Morskoi Tsar, Zoological Mythology

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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: 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:pg22373:19:24
# text = If the powers of darkness in the "mythical" skazkas are divided into two groups--the one male, the other female--there stand out as the most prominent figures in the former set, the Snake (or some other illustration of "Zoological Mythology"), Koshchei the Deathless, and the Morskoi Tsar or King of the Waters.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	male	male	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	female	female	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	32	advmod	_	_
32	prominent	prominent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Snake	Snake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
44	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	Morskoi	Morskoi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
61	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	60	conj	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	Waters	Water	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | present · passive |  | the powers of darkness in the mythical skazkas |  | two groups |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **stand out** | present |  | the Morskoi Tsar or King of the Waters |  | there |  | as the prominent figures in the former set | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **illustrate** |  |  | Zoological Mythology |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «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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