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title: To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack Frost, is a living personage. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 30

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To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack Frost, is a living personage.

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**What happens:** observe, be · **To what, where:** corpse, Russian peasants, living personage

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:40:30
# text = To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack Frost, is a living personage.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Moroz	Moroz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	personage	personage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | should · passive |  | corpse | the Russian peasants |  |  | Moroz *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to peasant=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a living personage |  |  |  |  | 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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