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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 181

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\_Vyed'ma\_ and \_witch\_ are in fact cousins who, though very distantly related, closely resemble each other both in appearance and in character.

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**What happens:** be, resemble · **To what, where:** fact cousins, each, appearance

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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: 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:pg22373:34:181
# text = _Vyed'ma_ and _witch_ are in fact cousins who, though very distantly related, closely resemble each other both in appearance and in character.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Vyed'ma	Vyed'ma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	distantly	distantly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obj	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	_
23	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc:preconj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  | fact cousins |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **resemble** | infinitive |  | each |  | appearance and character |  | closely *property* | tree rules |

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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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