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title: Very close indeed is the resemblance between the Russian story of "T… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Very close indeed is the resemblance between the Russian story of "The Two Friends," and the Norse "Friends in Life and Death" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 62, pp. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 180

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Very close indeed is the resemblance between the Russian story of "The Two Friends," and the Norse "Friends in Life and Death" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 62, pp.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** close resemblance

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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: 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:pg22373:52:180
# text = Very close indeed is the resemblance between the Russian story of "The Two Friends," and the Norse "Friends in Life and Death" (Asbjoernsen's New Series, No. 62, pp.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	Friends	Friend	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Norse	Norse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Asbjoernsen	Asbjoernsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	New	New	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Series	Series	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the close resemblance |  |  |  | between the Russian story of the Two Friends and the Norse  Friends in Life and Death and Asbjoernsen's New Series and No. and pp | 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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