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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 39

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\_Kukolka\_), a word designating any sort of puppet or other figure representing either man or beast.

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**Who acts:** word · **What happens:** designate, represent, sort · **To what, where:** sort, man, puppet

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word), 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:pg22373:31:39
# text = _Kukolka_), a word designating any sort of puppet or other figure representing either man or beast.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kukolka	Kukolka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	designating	designate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
17	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc:preconj	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **designate** | gerund | a word *not said here* | any sort of puppet or other figure |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund | a word *not said here* | man or beast |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | puppet or other figure |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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