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title: From the stories contained in what may be called the "chap-book lite… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: From the stories contained in what may be called the "chap-book literature" of Russia, I have made but few extracts. Who acts: I. 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 7

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From the stories contained in what may be called the "chap-book literature" of Russia, I have made but few extracts.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** contain, call, make · **To what, where:** stories, book literature, few extracts · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg22373:13`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg22373:3:7
# text = From the stories contained in what may be called the "chap-book literature" of Russia, I have made but few extracts.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
4	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
12	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
23	but	but	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	extracts	extract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | participle |  | the stories *not said here* |  | the stories |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in what=Location |
| 2 | **call** | may · passive |  | the book literature of Russia |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect | I | few extracts |  | the stories |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent extract=Product from story=Material |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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