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description: A German version of seventeen of these "chap-book tales," to which was prefixed an introduction by Jacob Grimm, was published some forty years ago,[2] and has been translated into English. Who acts: Jacob. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Dee
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 17

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A German version of seventeen of these "chap-book tales," to which was prefixed an introduction by Jacob Grimm, was published some forty years ago,\[2\] and has been translated into English.

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**Who acts:** Jacob · **What happens:** prefix, publish, translate · **To what, where:** introduction, German version, English

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jacob), 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:pg22373:3:17
# text = A German version of seventeen of these "chap-book tales," to which was prefixed an introduction by Jacob Grimm, was published some forty years ago,[2] and has been translated into English.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	prefixed	prefix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl:agent	_	_
23	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
28	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	38	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	translated	translate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefix** | past · passive | Jacob | a introduction |  |  |  | to this book tales | tree rules |
| 2 | **publish** | past · passive |  | a German version of seventeen of this book tales |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **translate** | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | into English *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into english=Result |

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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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