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description: The resemblance between the word _kukla_, a puppet, and the name and cry of the cuckoo (_Kukushka_) may be merely accidental, but that bird has a marked mythological character. Who acts: resemblance, bird, cuckoo. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapt
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 164

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The resemblance between the word \_kukla\_, a puppet, and the name and cry of the cuckoo (\_Kukushka\_) may be merely accidental, but that bird has a marked mythological character.

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**Who acts:** resemblance, bird, cuckoo · **What happens:** be, have, mark, cry · **To what, where:** marked mythological character

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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 (resemblance, bird, cuckoo), 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:pg22373:34:164
# text = The resemblance between the word _kukla_, a puppet, and the name and cry of the cuckoo (_Kukushka_) may be merely accidental, but that bird has a marked mythological character.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	kukla	kukla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Kukushka	Kukushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
26	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
37	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | the resemblance between the word and a puppet and the name and cry of the cuckoo |  |  |  |  | accidental, merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | that bird | a marked mythological character |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient |
| 3 | **mark** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** |  | the cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «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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