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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 47

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The snakes which figure in this weird story, the termination of which is so unusually tragic, bear a strong resemblance to the Indian Nagas, the inhabitants of Patala or the underground world, serpents which take at will the human shape and often mix with mortals.

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**Who acts:** snakes, serpents · **What happens:** figure, be, bear, take, mix · **To what, where:** weird story, strong resemblance, human shape

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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 (snakes, serpents), 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:pg22373:26:47
# text = The snakes which figure in this weird story, the termination of which is so unusually tragic, bear a strong resemblance to the Indian Nagas, the inhabitants of Patala or the underground world, serpents which take at will the human shape and often mix with mortals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	figure	figure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	termination	termination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	unusually	unusually	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	tragic	tragic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	bear	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Nagas	naga	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Patala	Patala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	often	often	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	mix	mix	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	mortals	mortal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **figure** | present | the snakes |  |  | this weird story |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the termination; tragic, unusually *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | infinitive | the snakes | a strong resemblance |  |  |  | to the Indian Nagas and the inhabitants of Patala or the underground world and serpents | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | present | serpents |  |  | the human shape |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at shape=Asset |
| 5 | **mix** | present | serpents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mortals; often *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with mortal=Co-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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