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title: [331] The sentence in italics is a good specimen of the _priskazka_,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [331] The sentence in italics is a good specimen of the _priskazka_, or preface. Who acts: 331. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, 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 8, sentence 170

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\[331\] The sentence in italics is a good specimen of the \_priskazka\_, or preface.

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**Who acts:** 331 · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** good specimen

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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 (331), 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:pg22373:49:170
# text = [331] The sentence in italics is a good specimen of the _priskazka_, or preface.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	331	331	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	italics	italic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	priskazka	priskazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 331 | a good specimen or preface |  |  |  |  | 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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