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title: [140] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mytho… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [140] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 650, and Tylor, "Primitive Culture," ii. pp. Who acts: 140. 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 o
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 16, sentence 25

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\[140\] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 650, and Tylor, "Primitive Culture," ii. pp.

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**Who acts:** 140 · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** Grimm Deutsche

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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 (140), 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:pg22373:34:25
# text = [140] For stories about house snakes, &c., see Grimm "Deutsche Mythologie," p. 650, and Tylor, "Primitive Culture," ii. pp.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	140	140	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Deutsche	Deutsche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	Mythologie	Mythologie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
20	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
21	650	650	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
31	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
33	pp	pp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | 140 for stories about house snakes | Grimm Deutsche |  |  |  |  | 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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