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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 59

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A Russian bone\[115\] one usen't to hear with one's ears, or see with one's eyes, but now a Russian bone has come to the house!

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**Who acts:** Russian bone · **What happens:** not hear, see, come · **To what, where:** house

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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), 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:pg22373:24:59
# text = A Russian bone[115] one usen't to hear with one's ears, or see with one's eyes, but now a Russian bone has come to the house!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	115	115	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive | a Russian bone |  |  |  |  | with one's ears | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | a Russian bone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | a Russian bone |  |  | the house | now |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |

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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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