--- title: [254] For an account of various similar superstitions connected with… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [254] For an account of various similar superstitions connected with Wednesday and Thursday, see Mannhardt's "Germanische Mythen," p. 15, 16, and W. Schmidt's "Das Jahr und seine Tage," p. 19. Who acts: W. Schmidt. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/71/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/) / 71 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 71 \[254\] For an account of various similar superstitions connected with Wednesday and Thursday, see Mannhardt's "Germanische Mythen," p. 15, 16, and W. Schmidt's "Das Jahr und seine Tage," p. 19. **Who acts:** W. Schmidt · **What happens:** connect, see, seine, account · **To what, where:** various similar superstitions, Germanische p. · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (W. Schmidt), 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:pg22373:41:71 # text = [254] For an account of various similar superstitions connected with Wednesday and Thursday, see Mannhardt's "Germanische Mythen," p. 15, 16, and W. Schmidt's "Das Jahr und seine Tage," p. 19. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 254 254 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 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 superstitions superstition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 connected connect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 Thursday Thursday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 18 Mannhardt Mannhardt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Germanische Germanische PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 22 Mythen Mythen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 25 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:unmarked _ _ 26 15 15 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 list _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 31 W. W. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Schmidt Schmidt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Das Das PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 36 Jahr Jahr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 flat _ _ 37 und und ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 seine seine NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 39 Tage Tage PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 42 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 43 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 42 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **connect** | participle | | various similar superstitions *not said here* | | | wednesday | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **see** | infinitive | | Mannhardt's Germanische p. | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer p.=Stimulus | | 3 | **seine** *in a quote* | | W. Schmidt | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **account** | | | various similar superstitions | | | | | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/72/) - ↑ back to [Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/41/)