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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 160

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In the next story a most detailed account is given of the manner in which a Vampire sets to work, and also of the best means of ridding the world of it.

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**Who acts:** Vampire, best · **What happens:** give, set, work, mean, rid · **To what, where:** detailed account, next story, world

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vampire, best), 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:pg22373:53:160
# text = In the next story a most detailed account is given of the manner in which a Vampire sets to work, and also of the best means of ridding the world of it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	ridding	rid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a detailed account |  | the next story |  | of the manner | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present | a Vampire |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | to-infinitive | a Vampire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present | the best |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rid** | gerund | the best *not said here* | the world of Vampire |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source |

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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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