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description: [113] A conventional expression of contempt which frequently occurs in the Skazkas. Who acts: conventional expression. 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 151

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\[113\] A conventional expression of contempt which frequently occurs in the Skazkas.

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**Who acts:** conventional expression · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** Skazkas

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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 (conventional expression), 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:pg22373:33:151
# text = [113] A conventional expression of contempt which frequently occurs in the Skazkas.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	113	113	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	contempt	contempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | a conventional expression of contempt |  |  | the Skazkas |  | frequently *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in skazkas=Location |

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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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