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description: The "Dead Mother," which has already been quoted,[400] belongs to the latter class; and so does the following tale--which, as it bears no title in the original, we may name, Who acts: Dead Mother, we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., pa
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 107

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The "Dead Mother," which has already been quoted,\[400\] belongs to the latter class; and so does the following tale--which, as it bears no title in the original, we may name,

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**Who acts:** Dead Mother, we · **What happens:** quote, belong, do, follow, name · **To what, where:** Dead Mother, following tale

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dead Mother, we), 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:pg22373:52:107
# text = The "Dead Mother," which has already been quoted,[400] belongs to the latter class; and so does the following tale--which, as it bears no title in the original, we may name,
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	already	already	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
34	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
35	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
40	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | the Dead Mother |  |  |  | 400 *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the Dead Mother |  |  |  |  | to the latter class | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | we *not said here* | the following tale |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** | may | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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