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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 44

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Thence comes it that in German \_Kamm\_ means not only a comb but also (like the Spanish \_Sierra\_) a mountain ridge or crest.

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**What happens:** come, mean · **To what, where:** fancy, comb

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:29:44
# text = Thence comes it that in German _Kamm_ means not only a comb but also (like the Spanish _Sierra_) a mountain ridge or crest.
1	Thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Kamm	Kamm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
10	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present |  | fancy |  |  |  | thence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  | a comb but a mountain ridge or crest |  |  |  | in German | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot comb=Theme in german=Attribute |

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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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