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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 94

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In a Servian variant of the story, it is distinctly stated that the protecting cow had been the girl's mother--manifestly in a previous state of existence, a purely Buddhistic idea.

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**Who acts:** protecting cow, story · **What happens:** state, protect, be, vary · **To what, where:** Skazkas, Servian variant, mother

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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 (protecting cow, story), 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:pg22373:45:94
# text = In a Servian variant of the story, it is distinctly stated that the protecting cow had been the girl's mother--manifestly in a previous state of existence, a purely Buddhistic idea.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Servian	servian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	purely	purely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | Skazkas |  | a Servian variant of the story |  | distinctly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **protect** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | the protecting cow | the girl's mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vary** |  | the story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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