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description: But, as a specimen of the class to which such tales as these belong, here is a skazka about one of the wood-sprites or Slavonic Satyrs, who are still believed by the peasants to haunt the forests of Russia. Who acts: such tales, peasants. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mu
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 16

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But, as a specimen of the class to which such tales as these belong, here is a skazka about one of the wood-sprites or Slavonic Satyrs, who are still believed by the peasants to haunt the forests of Russia.

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**Who acts:** such tales, peasants · **What happens:** belong, be, believe, haunt · **To what, where:** skazka, wood sprites, forests

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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 (such tales, peasants), 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:pg22373:38:16
# text = But, as a specimen of the class to which such tales as these belong, here is a skazka about one of the wood-sprites or Slavonic Satyrs, who are still believed by the peasants to haunt the forests of Russia.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	nmod	_	_
15	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	sprites	sprite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Satyrs	Satyr	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	parataxis	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | which such tales as these |  |  | here |  | as a specimen of the class | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a skazka |  |  |  | about one of the wood sprites or Slavonic Satyrs | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | present · passive | the peasants | the wood sprites or Slavonic Satyrs |  |  | still |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **haunt** | to-infinitive | the peasants *not said here* | the forests of Russia |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus forest=Experiencer |

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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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