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title: [373] But it is a "Chap-book" story, and therefore of doubtful origin. — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [373] But it is a "Chap-book" story, and therefore of doubtful origin. Who acts: notice. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 142

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\[373\] But it is a "Chap-book" story, and therefore of doubtful origin.

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**Who acts:** notice · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** book story

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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 (notice), 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:pg22373:48:142
# text = [373] But it is a "Chap-book" story, and therefore of doubtful origin.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	373	373	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | notice | a book story |  |  |  |  | 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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