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description: A somewhat similar Armenian story is quoted by Haxthausen in his Transcaucasia (p. 350 of the English translation). Who acts: Haxthausen. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 29

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A somewhat similar Armenian story is quoted by Haxthausen in his Transcaucasia (p. 350 of the English translation).

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**Who acts:** Haxthausen · **What happens:** quote · **To what, where:** similar Armenian story, Transcaucasia

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Haxthausen), 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:pg22373:42:29
# text = A somewhat similar Armenian story is quoted by Haxthausen in his Transcaucasia (p. 350 of the English translation).
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Armenian	Armenian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Haxthausen	Haxthausen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Transcaucasia	Transcaucasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	350	350	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · passive | Haxthausen | a similar Armenian story |  | Haxthausen's Transcaucasia |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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