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title: In Russia an aspen stake is selected for that purpose, but in some p… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Russia an aspen stake is selected for that purpose, but in some places one made of thorn is preferred. 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 every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 114

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In Russia an aspen stake is selected for that purpose, but in some places one made of thorn is preferred.

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**What happens:** select, make, prefer · **To what, where:** aspen stake, Russia, places

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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: 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:pg22373:54:114
# text = In Russia an aspen stake is selected for that purpose, but in some places one made of thorn is preferred.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	aspen	aspen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stake	stake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	flat	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | present · passive |  | a aspen stake |  | Russia |  | for that purpose | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  | some places |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prefer** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of thorn | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |

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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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