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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 3

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The present chapter is devoted to specimens of those skazkas which most Russian critics assert to be distinctly mythical.

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**Who acts:** most Russian critics · **What happens:** devote, assert, be · **To what, where:** present chapter, specimens, skazkas

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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 (most Russian critics), 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:pg22373:19:3
# text = The present chapter is devoted to specimens of those skazkas which most Russian critics assert to be distinctly mythical.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	assert	assert	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **devote** | present · passive |  | the present chapter |  |  |  | to specimens of that skazkas *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme to specimen=Goal |
| 2 | **assert** | present | most Russian critics | that skazkas |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | most Russian critics *not said here* |  |  |  |  | distinctly, mythical *property* | 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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