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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 118

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For a number of interesting legends, collected from the most distant parts of the world, about grinding mountains and crashing cliffs, &c., see Tylor's "Primitive Culture," pp.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** collect, grind, crash, see · **To what, where:** interesting legends, distant parts, mountains, cliffs, Primitive Culture

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:49:118
# text = For a number of interesting legends, collected from the most distant parts of the world, about grinding mountains and crashing cliffs, &c., see Tylor's "Primitive Culture," pp.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	grinding	grind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	crashing	crash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Primitive	primitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | participle |  | interesting legends *not said here* |  | the distant parts of the world |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from part=Source |
| 2 | **grind** | gerund |  | mountains |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient |
| 3 | **crash** | gerund |  | cliffs |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | imperative | you *not said here* | Tylor's Primitive Culture and pp |  |  |  | for a number of interesting legends & c. | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer culture=Stimulus |

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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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