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description: In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan. Who acts: three holy elders, story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 34

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In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan.

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**Who acts:** three holy elders, story · **What happens:** appear, vary · **To what, where:** Saviour, variants

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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 (three holy elders, story), 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:pg22373:55:34
# text = In some variants of this story, instead of the three holy elders appear the Saviour, St. Nicholas, and St. Mitrofan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	elders	elder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Saviour	Saviour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:desc	_	_
19	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:desc	_	_
23	Mitrofan	Mitrofan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | present | the three holy elders | the Saviour and Nicholas  St. and Mitrofan  St. |  | some variants of this story |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location saviour=Theme |
| 2 | **vary** |  | this story |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event 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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