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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 133

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The \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_, or Fire-Bird, which plays so important a part in this story, is worthy of special notice.

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**Who acts:** Zhar Ptitsa · **What happens:** play, be

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zhar Ptitsa), 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:pg22373:48:133
# text = The _Zhar-Ptitsa_, or Fire-Bird, which plays so important a part in this story, is worthy of special notice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Fire	Fire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | the Zhar Ptitsa or Fire Bird |  |  |  |  | important *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | the Zhar Ptitsa or Fire Bird |  |  |  |  | of special notice; worthy *property* | 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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