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title: The plumpest of these they used to sell to cannibals who had but one… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The plumpest of these they used to sell to cannibals who had but one eye apiece, situated in the forehead. Who acts: plumpest, cannibals. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 116

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The plumpest of these they used to sell to cannibals who had but one eye apiece, situated in the forehead.

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**Who acts:** plumpest, cannibals · **What happens:** use, sell, have, situate · **To what, where:** cannibals, forehead

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plumpest, cannibals), 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:pg22373:35:116
# text = The plumpest of these they used to sell to cannibals who had but one eye apiece, situated in the forehead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plumpest	plump	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	apiece	apiece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | the plumpest of these |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sell** | to-infinitive | the plumpest of these *not said here* |  | cannibals but one eye apiece |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cannibal=Recipient |
| 3 | **have** | past | cannibals but one eye apiece |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **situate** | participle |  | cannibals but one eye apiece *not said here* |  | the forehead |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in forehead=Destination |

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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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