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description: In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka. Who acts: scene. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 63

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In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka.

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**Who acts:** scene · **What happens:** be, resemble · **To what, where:** lykewake, this

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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 (scene), 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:pg22373:49:63
# text = In one of the least intelligible of the West Highland tales, there is a scene which somewhat resembles the "lykewake" in this skazka.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	intelligible	intelligible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Highland	Highland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	lykewake	lykewake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	_
26	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a scene |  |  | there |  | in one of the least intelligible of the Highland tales | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location |
| 2 | **resemble** | present | a scene | the lykewake |  | this |  | somewhat *property* | 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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