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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 46

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This introduction is almost identical with that prefixed to the German story of "Allerleirauh,"\[195\] except in so far as the puppets are concerned.

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**Who acts:** introduction, puppets · **What happens:** be, prefix · **To what, where:** that

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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 (introduction, puppets), 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:pg22373:31:46
# text = This introduction is almost identical with that prefixed to the German story of "Allerleirauh,"[195] except in so far as the puppets are concerned.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	prefixed	prefix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Allerleirauh	Allerleirauh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	195	195	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
21	except	except	ADP	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
22	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this introduction |  |  |  |  | almost, identical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prefix** | participle · passive |  | that |  |  |  | to the German story of Allerleirauh; 195 *obl* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the puppets |  |  |  |  | concerned, far *property* | 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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