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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 165

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See the account of the rite called "the Christening of the Cuckoos," in "Songs of the Russian people," p. 215.

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**Who acts:** you, Russian people · **What happens:** see, call, account, sing · **To what, where:** account, Songs, rite · **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 (you, Russian people), 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:pg22373:34:165
# text = See the account of the rite called "the Christening of the Cuckoos," in "Songs of the Russian people," p. 215.
1	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rite	rite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Christening	Christening	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Cuckoos	Cuckoo	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
25	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	215	215	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | the account of the rite |  | Songs of the Russian people  p. |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the rite *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the rite |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | the Russian people |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «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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