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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 21

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The grain of sand is found and brought, and the result is that the whole of the monstrous brood of Trolls or \_Haugebasser\_ is instantaneously destroyed.

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**Who acts:** result · **What happens:** find, bring, be, destroy · **To what, where:** grain, Haugebasser \_

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (result), 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:pg22373:25:21
# text = The grain of sand is found and brought, and the result is that the whole of the monstrous brood of Trolls or _Haugebasser_ is instantaneously destroyed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Haugebasser	Haugebasser	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	instantaneously	instantaneously	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | the grain of sand |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | the result |  |  |  |  | of the monstrous brood of Trolls; whole *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **destroy** | present · passive |  | Haugebasser \_ |  |  |  | instantaneously *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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