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description: In several of the Skazkas we find an account of a princess who is won in a similar manner to that described in the story of Helena the Fair. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 96

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In several of the Skazkas we find an account of a princess who is won in a similar manner to that described in the story of Helena the Fair.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** find, win, describe, account · **To what, where:** account, several Skazkas, princess, similar manner, that, story

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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 (we), 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:pg22373:45:96
# text = In several of the Skazkas we find an account of a princess who is won in a similar manner to that described in the story of Helena the Fair.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Skazkas	Skazka	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | we | a account of a princess |  | the several Skazkas |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Topic |
| 2 | **win** | present · passive |  | a princess |  | a similar manner |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **describe** | participle · passive |  | that |  | the story of Helena |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | a princess |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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