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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 26

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\_ exactly our "God bless us;" with us now merely an expression of surprise.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** bless · **To what, where:** us

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg22373:55:26
# text = _ exactly our "God bless us;" with us now merely an expression of surprise.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** *in a quote* | infinitive | our God | us |  |  |  | with us; a expression of surprise *obl* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |

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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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