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title: Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, i… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare "the moon sacrificed in the morning," and in the egg the sun. "Zoological Mythology," i. 269. Who acts: Gubernatis, moon, sun.. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 183

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Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare "the moon sacrificed in the morning," and in the egg the sun. "Zoological Mythology," i. 269.

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**Who acts:** Gubernatis, moon, sun. · **What happens:** see, sacrifice, mythology · **To what, where:** hare, egg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Gubernatis, moon, sun.), 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:pg22373:33:183
# text = Also by Professor A. de Gubernatis, who sees in the duck the dawn, in the hare "the moon sacrificed in the morning," and in the egg the sun. "Zoological Mythology," i. 269.
1	Also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:desc	_	_
4	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
6	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sacrificed	sacrifice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
39	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	36	appos	_	_
40	269	269	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Gubernatis  Professor |  |  |  |  | in the duck  the dawn; in the hare | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sacrifice** *in a quote* | past | the moon | the hare *not said here* |  |  | morning |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 3 | **mythology** *in a quote* |  | the sun. |  |  | the egg |  |  | 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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