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title: _Kost'_ changes into _koshch_ whence our Koshchei." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Kost'_ changes into _koshch_ whence our Koshchei." Who acts: _. 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 122

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\_Kost'\_ changes into \_koshch\_ whence our Koshchei."

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** koshch

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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: who acts (\_), 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:pg22373:33:122
# text = _Kost'_ changes into _koshch_ whence our Koshchei."
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Kost	Kost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	koshch	koshch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	conj	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Kost's \_ |  |  |  |  | into koshch *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into koshch=Result |

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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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