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title: [414] See the strange stories in Maurer's "Islaendische Volkssagen,"… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [414] See the strange stories in Maurer's "Islaendische Volkssagen," pp. Who acts: 414. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, 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 5, sentence 71

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\[414\] See the strange stories in Maurer's "Islaendische Volkssagen," pp.

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**Who acts:** 414 · **What happens:** see · **To what, where:** strange stories, Islaendische Volkssagen

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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 (414), 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:pg22373:55:71
# text = [414] See the strange stories in Maurer's "Islaendische Volkssagen," pp.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	414	414	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	See	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	Maurer	Maurer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Islaendische	Islaendische	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Volkssagen	Volkssagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | 414 | the strange stories |  | Maurer's Islaendische Volkssagen |  | pp *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |

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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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