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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 24

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But it seems really to be derived from the Greek +teremnon+, "anything closely shut fast or closely covered, a room, chamber," &c.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** seem, derive, cover · **To what, where:** Greek teremnon

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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 (it), 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:pg22373:33:24
# text = But it seems really to be derived from the Greek +teremnon+, "anything closely shut fast or closely covered, a room, chamber," &c.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	teremnon	teremnon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	_
17	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
30	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **derive** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | the Greek teremnon |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from teremnon=Material |
| 3 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

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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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