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description: Koshchei is merely one of the many incarnations of the dark spirit which takes so many monstrous shapes in the folk-tales of the class with which we are now dealing. Who acts: Koshchei, dark spirit, we, class. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 100

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Koshchei is merely one of the many incarnations of the dark spirit which takes so many monstrous shapes in the folk-tales of the class with which we are now dealing.

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**Who acts:** Koshchei, dark spirit, we, class · **What happens:** be, take, deal, tell · **To what, where:** one, many monstrous shapes, folk tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchei, dark spirit, we, class), 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:pg22373:21:100
# text = Koshchei is merely one of the many incarnations of the dark spirit which takes so many monstrous shapes in the folk-tales of the class with which we are now dealing.
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	incarnations	incarnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
29	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Koshchei | one |  |  |  | of the many incarnations of the dark spirit; merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | present | the dark spirit | many monstrous shapes |  | the folk tales of the class |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shape=Value in tale=Location |
| 3 | **deal** | present · progressive | we |  |  |  | now | with the class | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with which=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** |  | the class |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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