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title: [426] Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world,… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [426] Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world, also, are current in Western Europe, such as that about the rye--which in olden days was a mass of ears from top to bottom. Who acts: 426 Many, rye. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», C
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 34

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\[426\] Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world, also, are current in Western Europe, such as that about the rye--which in olden days was a mass of ears from top to bottom.

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**Who acts:** 426 Many, rye · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Western Europe, mass

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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 (426 Many, rye), 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:pg22373:56:34
# text = [426] Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world, also, are current in Western Europe, such as that about the rye--which in olden days was a mass of ears from top to bottom.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	426	426	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	obl	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rye	rye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 426 Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world |  |  | Western Europe |  | such that; current *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the rye | a mass |  |  | day | of ears from top to bottom | 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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