--- title: The Folk-tale in general, and the Skazka in particular--Relation of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Folk-tale in general, and the Skazka in particular--Relation of Russian Popular Tales to Russian Life--Stories about Courtship, Death, Burial and Wailings for the Dead--Warnings against Drink, Jokes about Women, Tales of Simpletons--A rhymed Skazka and a Legend 15 Who acts: Simpletons. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpletons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:4:3 # text = The Folk-tale in general, and the Skazka in particular--Relation of Russian Popular Tales to Russian Life--Stories about Courtship, Death, Burial and Wailings for the Dead--Warnings against Drink, Jokes about Women, Tales of Simpletons--A rhymed Skazka and a Legend 15 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Skazka Skazka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 -- -- PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Relation relation NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 Popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Russian Russian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 amod _ _ 21 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Courtship courtship NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Burial Burial PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Wailings wailing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Dead Dead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Warnings warning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 37 against against ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 Drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Jokes joke NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 41 about about ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 Women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Simpletons Simpleton PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 rhymed rhyme VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 Skazka Skazka PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 Legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 54 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 53 flat _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rhyme** | participle | | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tell** | | Simpletons | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/4/2/) - next →: [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/5/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/4/)