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title: [4] "Die aeltesten Volksmaerchen der Russen. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [4] "Die aeltesten Volksmaerchen der Russen. Who acts: 4. 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 77

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\[4\] "Die aeltesten Volksmaerchen der Russen.

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**Who acts:** 4 · **What happens:** die, aeltesten · **To what, where:** aeltesten Volksmaerchen

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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 (4), 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:pg22373:3:77
# text = [4] "Die aeltesten Volksmaerchen der Russen.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	aeltesten	aeltesten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	Volksmaerchen	Volksmaerchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
9	Russen	Russen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | infinitive | 4 | aeltesten Volksmaerchen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **aeltesten** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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