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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 59

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Of the proceedings of such a being the next story gives a detailed account, from which, among other things, may be learnt the fact that Slavonic corpses attach great importance to their coffin-lids as well as to their shrouds.

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**Who acts:** Slavonic corpses · **What happens:** be, give, learn, attach · **To what, where:** detailed account, other things, great importance

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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 (Slavonic corpses), 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:pg22373:53:59
# text = Of the proceedings of such a being the next story gives a detailed account, from which, among other things, may be learnt the fact that Slavonic corpses attach great importance to their coffin-lids as well as to their shrouds.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
5	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	attach	attach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	44	cc	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	shrouds	shroud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of such next story | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present |  | a detailed account |  |  |  | of the proceedings | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | may · passive |  | other things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attach** | present | Slavonic corpses | great importance |  |  |  | to things's coffin lids | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to lid=Co-Patient |

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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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