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description: For a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany, see "Songs of the Russian People," pp. Who acts: you, Russian People. 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 31

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For a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany, see "Songs of the Russian People," pp.

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**Who acts:** you, Russian People · **What happens:** see, describe, sing · **To what, where:** Songs, Rusalka

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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:pg22373:34:31
# text = For a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany, see "Songs of the Russian People," pp.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Rusalka	Rusalka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Vodyany	Vodyany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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* | Songs of the Russian People and pp |  |  |  | for a description of the Rusalka and the Vodyany | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **describe** |  |  | the Rusalka and the Vodyany |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **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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