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description: The following are the principal Russian books to which reference has been made:-- A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 40

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The following are the principal Russian books to which reference has been made:--

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**What happens:** follow, be, make · **To what, where:** principal Russian books

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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: 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:pg22373:3:40
# text = The following are the principal Russian books to which reference has been made:--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	case	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	10	det	_	_
10	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | follow the principal Russian books; to which reference | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the principal Russian books |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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