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description: Afanasief compares the story also with the German tale of "The Little Grey Mannikin," in the "Zeitschrift fuer Deutsche Mythologie," &c., i. pp. Who acts: Afanasief, Little Grey Mannikin. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 221

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Afanasief compares the story also with the German tale of "The Little Grey Mannikin," in the "Zeitschrift fuer Deutsche Mythologie," &c., i. pp.

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**Who acts:** Afanasief, Little Grey Mannikin · **What happens:** compare, tell · **To what, where:** story, Zeitschrift fuer · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Afanasief, Little Grey Mannikin), 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:pg22373:49:221
# text = Afanasief compares the story also with the German tale of "The Little Grey Mannikin," in the "Zeitschrift fuer Deutsche Mythologie," &c., i. pp.
1	Afanasief	Afanasief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	compares	compare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Zeitschrift	Zeitschrift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	fuer	fuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
23	Deutsche	Deutsche	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	Mythologie	Mythologie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
27	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	c.	c.	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	i.	i.	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | present | Afanasief | the story |  |  |  | with the German tale of the Little Grey Mannikin in the Zeitschrift fuer and i. pp | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent story=Patient with tale=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **tell** |  | the Little Grey Mannikin |  |  | the Zeitschrift fuer and i. pp |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent in=place |

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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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