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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 1

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Similar to this story in many of its features as well as in its catastrophe is one of the most spirited and dramatic of all the Skazkas, that of--

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**Who acts:** many, story · **What happens:** be, spirit, feature · **To what, where:** catastrophe

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, story), 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:pg22373:30:1
# text = Similar to this story in many of its features as well as in its catastrophe is one of the most spirited and dramatic of all the Skazkas, that of--
1	Similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	17	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	catastrophe	catastrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	spirited	spirit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many of story's features |  |  | story's catastrophe |  | in one | tree rules |
| 2 | **spirit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feature** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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