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description: There may, however, be a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers. Who acts: mythological explanation, behavior. 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
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 84

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There may, however, be a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers.

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**Who acts:** mythological explanation, behavior · **What happens:** be, explain

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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 (mythological explanation, behavior), 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:pg22373:21:84
# text = There may, however, be a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	behavior	behavior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | may | a mythological explanation of the behavior of the two elder brothers |  |  | there |  | however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **explain** |  | the behavior of the two elder brothers |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «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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