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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 30

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This frequently occurs in that class of stories which relates how three brothers set out to apprehend a trespasser, or to seek a mother or sister who has been mysteriously spirited away.

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**Who acts:** This, stories · **What happens:** occur, relate, set out, apprehend, seek, spirit away · **To what, where:** class, three brothers, trespasser, mother

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, stories), 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:pg22373:20:30
# text = This frequently occurs in that class of stories which relates how three brothers set out to apprehend a trespasser, or to seek a mother or sister who has been mysteriously spirited away.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	relates	relate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	apprehend	apprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trespasser	trespasser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	mysteriously	mysteriously	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	spirited	spirit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | This |  |  | that class of stories |  | frequently *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in class=Location |
| 2 | **relate** | present | stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **set out** | participle · passive |  | three brothers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **apprehend** | to-infinitive |  | a trespasser |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trespasser=Stimulus |
| 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive |  | a mother or sister |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 6 | **spirit away** | present · perfect · passive |  | a mother or sister |  |  |  | away, mysteriously *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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