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description: Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,[5] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales. Who acts: several articles. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted., with its d
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 20

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Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,\[5\] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales.

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**Who acts:** several articles · **What happens:** appear, give · **To what, where:** 5, some, accounts

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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 (several articles), 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:pg22373:3:20
# text = Of late years several articles have appeared in some of the German periodicals,[5] giving accounts or translations of some of the Russian Popular Tales.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	periodicals	periodical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	translations	translation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present · perfect | several articles | 5 |  | some | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in some=Location |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | several articles *not said here* | accounts or translations of some |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |

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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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