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description: In modern Greece the women attribute all nightly meddling with their spinning to the _Neraides_ (the representatives of the Hellenic Nereids. Who acts: women attribute, Laumes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, with it
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 81

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In modern Greece the women attribute all nightly meddling with their spinning to the \_Neraides\_ (the representatives of the Hellenic Nereids.

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**Who acts:** women attribute, Laumes · **What happens:** meddle, spin

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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 (women attribute, Laumes), 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:pg22373:41:81
# text = In modern Greece the women attribute all nightly meddling with their spinning to the _Neraides_ (the representatives of the Hellenic Nereids.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	nightly	nightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	meddling	meddle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Neraides	Neraides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	representatives	representative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Nereids	Nereid	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meddle** | gerund | the women attribute *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Laumes's spinning; to the Neraides; all, nightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spin** |  | Laumes *= laume* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spinning «act transitive»: poss=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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