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title: A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernat… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernatis ("Zoolog. Who acts: A. de. 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 225

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A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernatis ("Zoolog.

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**Who acts:** A. de · **What happens:** refer · **To what, where:** number

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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 (A. de), 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:pg22373:49:225
# text = A number of stories about the Pike are referred to by A. de Gubernatis ("Zoolog.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Pike	Pike	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	A.	A.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Zoolog	Zoolog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present · passive | A. de | a number of stories about the Pike |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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