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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 80

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\[415\] In Germany tales of horror similar to the Icelandic are by no means unknown, but the majority of them are to be found in districts which were once wholly Lettic or Slavonic, though they are now reckoned as Teutonic, such as East Prussia, or Pomerania, or Lusatia.

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**Who acts:** 415, districts, horror · **What happens:** be, find, reckon, tell · **To what, where:** majority, districts, Lettic, corpses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (415, districts, horror), 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:pg22373:54:80
# text = [415] In Germany tales of horror similar to the Icelandic are by no means unknown, but the majority of them are to be found in districts which were once wholly Lettic or Slavonic, though they are now reckoned as Teutonic, such as East Prussia, or Pomerania, or Lusatia.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	415	415	NUM	CD	ExtPos=PROPN|NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Icelandic	Icelandic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
33	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	Lettic	Lettic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Teutonic	teutonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	48	case	_	_
47	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	fixed	_	_
48	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	Pomerania	Pomerania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	Lusatia	Lusatia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 415 in Germany tales of horror |  |  |  |  | mean, unknown *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | the majority of corpses |  | districts |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past | districts | Lettic or Slavonic |  |  |  | once, wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **reckon** | present · passive |  | corpses *= corpse* |  |  | now | as Teutonic; East Prussia or Pomerania or Lusatia *obl* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **tell** |  | horror |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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