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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 155

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\[290\] For an account of the \_ovin\_, and the respect paid to it or to the demons supposed to haunt it see "The Songs of the Russian People," p. 257.

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**Who acts:** respect · **What happens:** pay, suppose, haunt, see, account · **To what, where:** ovin, demons, respect, Songs

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (respect), 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:pg22373:41:155
# text = [290] For an account of the _ovin_, and the respect paid to it or to the demons supposed to haunt it see "The Songs of the Russian People," p. 257.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	290	290	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ovin	ovin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	demons	demon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	haunt	haunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Songs	Song	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	People	People	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
37	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
38	257	257	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | the respect |  | ovin |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  | the demons  p. *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **haunt** | to-infinitive |  | respect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | infinitive |  | the Songs of the Russian People |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | the ovin |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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