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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 60

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In one of the Skazkas, a \_volshebnitsa\_ or enchantress is introduced, whose "death," like that of Koshchei, is spoken of as something definite and localized.

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**What happens:** introduce, speak, localize · **To what, where:** volshebnitsa, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg22373:25:60
# text = In one of the Skazkas, a _volshebnitsa_ or enchantress is introduced, whose "death," like that of Koshchei, is spoken of as something definite and localized.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	volshebnitsa	volshebnitsa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obl	_	_
31	definite	definite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	localized	localize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | present · passive |  | a volshebnitsa or enchantress |  |  |  | in one; of the Skazkas; death *obl* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  | of something | tree rules |
| 3 | **localize** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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