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description: In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant[212] the boat is golden, the oar of silver. Who acts: boy, boat. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, with its dependency tree
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 53

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In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant\[212\] the boat is golden, the oar of silver.

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**Who acts:** boy, boat · **What happens:** row, be · **To what, where:** silver boat, variant

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, boat), 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:pg22373:32:53
# text = In this variant the boy rows a silver boat with a golden oar; in another South Russian variant[212] the boat is golden, the oar of silver.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rows	row	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
17	South	South	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	212	212	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	oar	oar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **row** | present | the boy | a silver boat |  | this variant |  | with a golden oar | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | the boat |  |  |  |  | golden *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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