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description: In another skazka[374] a sportsman finds in a forest "a golden feather of the _Zhar-Ptitsa_; like fire does the feather shine!" Who acts: skazka. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 154

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In another skazka\[374\] a sportsman finds in a forest "a golden feather of the \_Zhar-Ptitsa\_; like fire does the feather shine!"

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**Who acts:** skazka · **What happens:** find, do · **To what, where:** forest, feather shine · **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 (skazka), 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:pg22373:48:154
# text = In another skazka[374] a sportsman finds in a forest "a golden feather of the _Zhar-Ptitsa_; like fire does the feather shine!"
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	374	374	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | another skazka |  |  | a forest |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present |  | the feather shine |  |  |  | like fire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shine=Eventuality |

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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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