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description: Take, for instance, the story of Sringabhuja, in chap. xxxix. of book vii. of the "Kathasaritsagara." Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 45

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Take, for instance, the story of Sringabhuja, in chap. xxxix. of book vii. of the "Kathasaritsagara."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** instance

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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 (you), 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:pg22373:21:45
# text = Take, for instance, the story of Sringabhuja, in chap. xxxix. of book vii. of the "Kathasaritsagara."
1	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Sringabhuja	Sringabhuja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
14	xxxix	xxxix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Kathasaritsagara	Kathasaritsagara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | instance |  |  |  | of book vii; of the Kathasaritsagara; chap *vocative* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument instance=Theme xxxix=Destination |

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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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