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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 168

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Professor de Gubernatis identifies the Russian puppet with "the moon, the Vedic Raka, very small, but very intelligent, enclosed in the wooden dress, in the forest of night," "Zoological Mythology," i. 207-8.

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**Who acts:** Professor · **What happens:** identify, enclose · **To what, where:** Russian puppet, wooden dress

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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 (Professor), 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:pg22373:34:168
# text = Professor de Gubernatis identifies the Russian puppet with "the moon, the Vedic Raka, very small, but very intelligent, enclosed in the wooden dress, in the forest of night," "Zoological Mythology," i. 207-8.
1	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	identifies	identify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Vedic	vedic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Raka	Raka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	enclosed	enclose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Zoological	Zoological	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Mythology	mythology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	_
42	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	39	conj	_	_
43	207-8	207-8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | present | Professor | the Russian puppet |  |  |  | with the moon | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent puppet=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **enclose** *in a quote* | participle | Professor *not said here* |  |  | the wooden dress |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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