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description: Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 3

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Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho.

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**What happens:** resemble, draw, be, call · **To what, where:** picture, offer, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg22373:35:3
# text = Somewhat resembling the picture usually drawn of the supernatural Witch in the Skazkas, is that which some of them offer of a personification of evil called Likho.
1	Somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	resembling	resemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	offer	offer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	personification	personification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	Likho	Likho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | gerund |  | the picture |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of the supernatural; usually *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of supernatural=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | offer |  |  |  | of a personification of evil | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | evil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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