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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 4

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\[224\] The following story, belonging to the familiar Polyphemus-cycle, will serve to convey an idea of this baleful being, who in it takes a female form.

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**Who acts:** 224, following story · **What happens:** follow, story, belong, serve, convey, be · **To what, where:** idea

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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 (224, following story), 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:pg22373:35:4
# text = [224] The following story, belonging to the familiar Polyphemus-cycle, will serve to convey an idea of this baleful being, who in it takes a female form.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	224	224	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	cycle	cycle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	baleful	baleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **story** |  | 224 |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | the following story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the familiar Polyphemus cycle | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **serve** | future |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **convey** | to-infinitive |  | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent idea=Topic |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | take *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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