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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 37

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The following explanation of the skazka (with the exception of the words within brackets) is given by A. de Gubernatis ("Zool.

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**Who acts:** A., skazka · **What happens:** follow, give, explain, except · **To what, where:** following explanation, words

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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 (A., skazka), 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:pg22373:33:37
# text = The following explanation of the skazka (with the exception of the words within brackets) is given by A. de Gubernatis ("Zool.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	brackets	bracket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
22	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Zool	Zool	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present · passive | A. | the following explanation of the skazka |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **explain** |  | the skazka |  |  |  |  |  | nom explanation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **except** |  |  | the words within brackets |  |  |  |  | nom exception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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