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description: Such are, for instance, the leading incidents in the following skazka, many features of which closely resemble those of various well-known West-European folk-tales. Who acts: leading incidents, many features. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 55

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Such are, for instance, the leading incidents in the following skazka, many features of which closely resemble those of various well-known West-European folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** leading incidents, many features · **What happens:** be, lead, follow, resemble, know · **To what, where:** skazka, many features

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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 (leading incidents, many features), 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:pg22373:26:55
# text = Such are, for instance, the leading incidents in the following skazka, many features of which closely resemble those of various well-known West-European folk-tales.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
13	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
23	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
27	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for Such instance | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | the leading incidents *not said here* | skazka |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Theme |
| 4 | **resemble** | infinitive | many features | many features |  |  |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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