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description: By far the most important beings of the latter class are those malevolent enchantresses who form two closely related branches of the same family. Who acts: important beings, malevolent enchantresses, latter class. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapt
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 71

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By far the most important beings of the latter class are those malevolent enchantresses who form two closely related branches of the same family.

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**Who acts:** important beings, malevolent enchantresses, latter class · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** malevolent enchantresses, two related branches

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (important beings, malevolent enchantresses, latter class), 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:pg22373:28:71
# text = By far the most important beings of the latter class are those malevolent enchantresses who form two closely related branches of the same family.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	malevolent	malevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	enchantresses	enchantress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
18	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the important beings of the latter class | that malevolent enchantresses |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | that malevolent enchantresses | two related branches of the same family |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location branch=Theme |
| 3 | **be** |  | the latter class |  |  |  |  |  | nom being «state intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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