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title: A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night v. Fable 2). Who acts: doll. 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 167

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A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night v. Fable 2).

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**Who acts:** doll · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** important part

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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 (doll), 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:pg22373:34:167
# text = A doll plays an important part in one of Straparola's stories (Night v. Fable 2).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Straparola	Straparola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Night	night	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	v.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | a doll | a important part |  |  |  | in one of Straparola's stories | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

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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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