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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 103

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Many of the Russian stories closely resemble those of a similar nature which occur in German and Scandinavian collections; all of them, for instance, agreeing in the unfavorable light in which they place St. Peter.

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**Who acts:** Many Russian stories, similar nature, instance, stories · **What happens:** resemble, occur, agree, place · **To what, where:** those, German collections, unfavorable light

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many Russian stories, similar nature, instance, stories), 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:pg22373:56:103
# text = Many of the Russian stories closely resemble those of a similar nature which occur in German and Scandinavian collections; all of them, for instance, agreeing in the unfavorable light in which they place St. Peter.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	agreeing	agree	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	unfavorable	unfavorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nmod	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
37	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:desc	_	_
38	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | present | the Many Russian stories | those |  |  |  | for instance; closely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | a similar nature |  |  | German collections |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in collection=Location |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | instance *not said here* |  |  | the unfavorable light |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **place** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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