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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 89

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The following story is more in keeping with such ideas as these, than with those which are expressed in the tales about Koshchei and his kin.

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**Who acts:** following story · **What happens:** follow, be, keep, express · **To what, where:** those, tales

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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 (following story), 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:pg22373:25:89
# text = The following story is more in keeping with such ideas as these, than with those which are expressed in the tales about Koshchei and his kin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	kin	kin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the following story |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | the following story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with such ideas; as these | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **express** | present · passive |  | those |  | the tales about Koshchei and story's kin |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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