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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 15

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Of several of these--such as the Domovoy or House-Spirit, the Rusalka or Naiad, and the Vodyany or Water-Sprite--I have written at some length elsewhere,\[263\] and therefore I will not at present quote any of the stories in which they figure.

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**Who acts:** I, stories · **What happens:** write, figure · **To what, where:** Rusalka, length, stories

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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 (I, stories), 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:pg22373:38:15
# text = Of several of these--such as the Domovoy or House-Spirit, the Rusalka or Naiad, and the Vodyany or Water-Sprite--I have written at some length elsewhere,[263] and therefore I will not at present quote any of the stories in which they figure.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	Domovoy	Domovoy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Rusalka	Rusalka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Naiad	Naiad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Vodyany	Vodyany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	Water	Water	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Sprite	Sprite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	263	263	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	37	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	quote	quote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
47	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	46	nsubj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	obl	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	figure	figure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · perfect | I | the Rusalka or Naiad and the Vodyany or Water and Sprite *not said here* |  | some length |  | elsewhere *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rusalka=Theme |
| 2 | **figure** | present | stories *= story* |  |  | the stories |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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