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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 8

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But the supernatural beings which people the fairy-land peculiar to each race, though closely resembling each other in many respects, differ conspicuously in others.

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**Who acts:** land peculiar, race, supernatural beings · **What happens:** people, resemble, differ · **To what, where:** each, many respects, others

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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 (land peculiar, race, supernatural beings), 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:pg22373:19:8
# text = But the supernatural beings which people the fairy-land peculiar to each race, though closely resembling each other in many respects, differ conspicuously in others.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	6	det	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	18	obj	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	respects	respects	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
25	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	conspicuously	conspicuously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **people** |  | the land peculiar to each race |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | gerund | each race *not said here* | each |  | many respects |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **differ** | present | the supernatural beings and which people |  |  | others |  | conspicuously *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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