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description: St. Friday and St. Wednesday appear to belong to that class of spiritual beings, sometimes of a demoniacal disposition, with which the imagination of the old Slavonians peopled the elements. Who acts: Friday, imagination. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 14

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St. Friday and St. Wednesday appear to belong to that class of spiritual beings, sometimes of a demoniacal disposition, with which the imagination of the old Slavonians peopled the elements.

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**Who acts:** Friday, imagination · **What happens:** appear, belong, people, imagine · **To what, where:** elements, old Slavonians

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friday, imagination), 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:pg22373:38:14
# text = St. Friday and St. Wednesday appear to belong to that class of spiritual beings, sometimes of a demoniacal disposition, with which the imagination of the old Slavonians peopled the elements.
1	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	peopled	people	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | Friday  St. and Wednesday  St. |  |  |  |  | of a demoniacal disposition | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **belong** | to-infinitive | Friday  St. and Wednesday  St. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to that class of spiritual beings | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **people** | past | the imagination of the old Slavonians | the elements |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **imagine** |  |  | the old Slavonians |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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