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title: A _spasibo_[241] is no small thing. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A _spasibo_[241] is no small thing. Who acts: _ spasibo. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, 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 III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 180

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A \_spasibo\_\[241\] is no small thing.

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**Who acts:** \_ spasibo · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** small thing

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ spasibo), 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:pg22373:36:180
# text = A _spasibo_[241] is no small thing.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	spasibo	spasibo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	241	241	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a \_ spasibo | no small thing |  |  |  |  | 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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