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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 141

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One of the skazkas\[372\] about the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_ closely resembles the well-known German tale of the Golden Bird.

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**Who acts:** Zhar, Golden Bird · **What happens:** resemble, know, tell · **To what, where:** known German tale · **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 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, Golden Bird), 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:pg22373:48:141
# text = One of the skazkas[372] about the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ closely resembles the well-known German tale of the Golden Bird.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	372	372	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
15	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | present | the Zhar and Ptitsa *not said here* | the known German tale of the Golden Bird |  |  |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the Golden Bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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