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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 105

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No Russian bone can the ear hear nor the eye see, but there's a smell of Russia here!"

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**Who acts:** Russian bone, eye, smell, Russia · **What happens:** hear, see, be, smell

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian bone, eye, smell, Russia), 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:pg22373:24:105
# text = No Russian bone can the ear hear nor the eye see, but there's a smell of Russia here!"
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can | no Russian bone |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | the eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **be** | present | a smell of Russia |  |  | here; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smell** |  | Russia |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition 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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