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title: The two elder brothers were such fine strapping fellows! so tall and… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The two elder brothers were such fine strapping fellows! so tall and stout! Who acts: two elder brothers. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 29

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The two elder brothers were such fine strapping fellows! so tall and stout!

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**Who acts:** two elder brothers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** such fine strapping fellows

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two elder brothers), 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:pg22373:45:29
# text = The two elder brothers were such fine strapping fellows! so tall and stout!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	elder	elder	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	strapping	strapping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the two elder brothers | such fine strapping fellows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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