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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 80

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In a variant of the "Fox Physician" from the Vologda Government, it is a pea which gives birth to the wondrous tree. "

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**Who acts:** Government, pea, Fox Physician · **What happens:** be, give, vary · **To what, where:** pea, variant, birth, wondrous tree

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Government, pea, Fox Physician), 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:pg22373:51:80
# text = In a variant of the "Fox Physician" from the Vologda Government, it is a pea which gives birth to the wondrous tree. "
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Physician	physician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Vologda	Vologda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Government	Government	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Government | a pea |  | a variant of the Fox Physician from the Vologda Government |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | a pea | birth | the wondrous tree |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to tree=Recipient |
| 3 | **vary** |  | the Fox Physician from the Vologda Government |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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