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description: One of the old Russian songs still sung at Christmas, tells how a Pike comes from Novgorod, its scales of silver and gold, its back woven with pearls, a costly diamond gleaming in its head instead of eyes. Who acts: Pike, costly diamond. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Mus
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 80

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One of the old Russian songs still sung at Christmas, tells how a Pike comes from Novgorod, its scales of silver and gold, its back woven with pearls, a costly diamond gleaming in its head instead of eyes.

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**Who acts:** Pike, costly diamond · **What happens:** sing, tell, come, weave, gleam · **To what, where:** old Russian songs, Christmas, Novgorod, back, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pike, costly diamond), 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:pg22373:46:80
# text = One of the old Russian songs still sung at Christmas, tells how a Pike comes from Novgorod, its scales of silver and gold, its back woven with pearls, a costly diamond gleaming in its head instead of eyes.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Novgorod	Novgorod	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
29	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
36	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	42	case	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	fixed	_	_
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | the old Russian songs *not said here* |  | Christmas | still |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at christmas=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | present | a Pike |  |  | Novgorod and repute's scales of silver and gold and repute's back |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from novgorod=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **weave** | participle |  | repute's back *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **gleam** | gerund | a costly diamond *not said here* |  |  | repute's head |  | instead eyes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location |

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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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