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description: [132] Closely connected with the Greek tale is the Servian story of the dragon[133] whose "strength" (_snaga_) lies in a sparrow, which is inside a dove, inside a hare, inside a boar, inside a dragon (_ajdaya_) which is in a lake, near a royal city. Who acts: 132, Servian story, sparrow, dragon. A s
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 28

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\[132\] Closely connected with the Greek tale is the Servian story of the dragon\[133\] whose "strength" (\_snaga\_) lies in a sparrow, which is inside a dove, inside a hare, inside a boar, inside a dragon (\_ajdaya\_) which is in a lake, near a royal city.

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**Who acts:** 132, Servian story, sparrow, dragon · **What happens:** connect, be, lie · **To what, where:** Servian story, sparrow, dove, lake

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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 (132, Servian story, sparrow, dragon), 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:pg22373:25:28
# text = [132] Closely connected with the Greek tale is the Servian story of the dragon[133] whose "strength" (_snaga_) lies in a sparrow, which is inside a dove, inside a hare, inside a boar, inside a dragon (_ajdaya_) which is in a lake, near a royal city.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	132	132	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Servian	servian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	133	133	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	snaga	snaga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
29	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
36	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
51	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	ajdaya	ajdaya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	53	punct	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	nsubj	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
62	near	near	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
64	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the Greek tale; closely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with tale=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | 132 | the Servian story |  |  |  | of the dragon | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | the Servian story |  |  | a sparrow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sparrow=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | a sparrow |  |  | a dove and a hare and a boar |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | a dragon and a lake |  |  | a lake |  |  | tree rules |

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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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