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description: Many skazkas also contain, as we have already seen, very clear directions how to deprive a vampire of his baleful power. Who acts: Many skazkas, we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 112

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Many skazkas also contain, as we have already seen, very clear directions how to deprive a vampire of his baleful power.

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**Who acts:** Many skazkas, we · **What happens:** contain, see, deprive · **To what, where:** clear directions, vampire

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many skazkas, 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:pg22373:54:112
# text = Many skazkas also contain, as we have already seen, very clear directions how to deprive a vampire of his baleful power.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	already	already	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	deprive	deprive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	baleful	baleful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | Many skazkas |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **see** | present · perfect | we | clear directions |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **deprive** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | a vampire of stranger's baleful power |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vampire=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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