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title: [257] Compare the English nursery rhyme addressed to the lady-bird: — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [257] Compare the English nursery rhyme addressed to the lady-bird: Who acts: 257. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, 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 7, sentence 76

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\[257\] Compare the English nursery rhyme addressed to the lady-bird:

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**Who acts:** 257 · **What happens:** compare, address · **To what, where:** English nursery rhyme

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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 (257), 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:pg22373:41:76
# text = [257] Compare the English nursery rhyme addressed to the lady-bird:
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	257	257	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | infinitive | 257 | the English nursery rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Patient |
| 2 | **address** | participle |  | the English nursery rhyme *not said here* |  |  |  | to the lady bird | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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