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title: 454-5, where _skohsl_ is supposed to mean a forest-sprite, also p. 9… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: 454-5, where _skohsl_ is supposed to mean a forest-sprite, also p. 954.) A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 121

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454-5, where \_skohsl\_ is supposed to mean a forest-sprite, also p. 954.)

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**What happens:** suppose, mean · **To what, where:** skohsl \_, forest sprite

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:33:121
# text = 454-5, where _skohsl_ is supposed to mean a forest-sprite, also p. 954.)
1	454-5	454-5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	skohsl	skohsl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sprite	sprite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	954	954	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | skohsl \_ |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | to-infinitive |  | a forest sprite  p. |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprite=Topic |

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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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