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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 40

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\[Stories about serpent-spouses are by no means uncommon, but I can find no parallel to the above so far as the termination is concerned.

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**Who acts:** Stories, I, termination · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** parallel

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stories, I, termination), 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:pg22373:26:40
# text = [Stories about serpent-spouses are by no means uncommon, but I can find no parallel to the above so far as the termination is concerned.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	spouses	spouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	obl	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	above	above	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	termination	termination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Stories about serpent spouses |  |  |  |  | by no; mean, uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | can | I | no parallel |  |  |  | to the above; far *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parallel=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | the termination |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | 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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