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title: [177] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [177] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15. Who acts: West Highlands. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, 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 16, sentence 123

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\[177\] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15.

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**Who acts:** West Highlands · **What happens:** tell · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (West Highlands), 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:pg22373:34:123
# text = [177] "Tales of the West Highlands," ii. p. 15.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	177	177	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Highlands	Highlands	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
14	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	15	15	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *in a quote* |  | the West Highlands |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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