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title: _ The _chulan_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom fo… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The _chulan_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c. Who acts: chulan _. 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 136

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\_ The \_chulan\_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c.

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**Who acts:** chulan \_ · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** kind

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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 (chulan \_), 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:pg22373:34:136
# text = _ The _chulan_ is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	chulan	chulan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	storeroom	storeroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the chulan \_ | a kind & c. |  |  |  | of closet | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a kind & c. *not said here* |  |  |  | as a storeroom for provisions; generally *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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