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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 12

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In old times sacrifices were regularly paid to lakes and streams in Russia, just as they were in Germany\[275\] and in other lands.

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**Who acts:** sacrifices · **What happens:** pay, be · **To what, where:** sacrifices, Russia

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sacrifices), 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:pg22373:39:12
# text = In old times sacrifices were regularly paid to lakes and streams in Russia, just as they were in Germany[275] and in other lands.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	sacrifices	sacrifice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	275	275	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · passive |  | sacrifices |  | Russia | time | to lakes and streams; regularly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | past | sacrifices *= sacrifice* |  |  |  |  | as Germany and other lands | 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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