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description: But instead of asking aid from the Lord, they applied to the Devil, who taught them how to make an _izba_ or ordinary Russian cottage. Who acts: stories, Devil. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, with its dependency tree and 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 22

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But instead of asking aid from the Lord, they applied to the Devil, who taught them how to make an \_izba\_ or ordinary Russian cottage.

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**Who acts:** stories, Devil · **What happens:** ask, apply, teach, make · **To what, where:** aid, stories, \_ izba

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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 (stories, Devil), 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:pg22373:56:22
# text = But instead of asking aid from the Lord, they applied to the Devil, who taught them how to make an _izba_ or ordinary Russian cottage.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
5	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Devil	Devil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	izba	izba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | stories *= story* *not said here* | aid |  |  |  | from the Lord | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Recipient |
| 2 | **apply** | past | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  | to the Devil | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the Devil |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | the Devil *not said here* | a \_ izba |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset izba=Product |

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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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