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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 35

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He is often known by the name of Zmei \[snake\] Goruinuich \[son of the \_gora\_ or mountain\], and sometimes he is supposed to dwell in the mountain caverns.

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**Who acts:** name · **What happens:** know, suppose, dwell, name · **To what, where:** outline, mountain caverns, Zmei

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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 (name), 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:pg22373:19:35
# text = He is often known by the name of Zmei [snake] Goruinuich [son of the _gora_ or mountain], and sometimes he is supposed to dwell in the mountain caverns.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Zmei	Zmei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Goruinuich	Goruinuich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	gora	gora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	caverns	cavern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **know** | present · passive | the name of Zmei | outline |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | outline |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the mountain caverns |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cavern=Location |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Zmei |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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