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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 1

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We will take next a story which is a great favorite in Russia, and which will serve as another illustration of the use made of magical "properties" in the Skazkas.

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**Who acts:** We, story · **What happens:** take, be, serve, make, illustrate · **To what, where:** story, great favorite, Russia, use

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, 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:pg22373:46:1
# text = We will take next a story which is a great favorite in Russia, and which will serve as another illustration of the use made of magical "properties" in the Skazkas.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	favorite	favorite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | We | a story |  |  |  | next *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a story | a great favorite |  | Russia |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** | future |  |  |  |  |  | as another illustration of the use | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as illustration=Attribute |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | the use *not said here* |  |  |  | of magical properties in the Skazkas | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **illustrate** |  |  | the use |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «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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