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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 77

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There is a bird, probably the peewit, which during dry weather may be seen always on the wing, and piteously crying \_Peet, Peet\_,\[432\] as if begging for water.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** be, see, cry, beg · **To what, where:** peewit, wing, Peet

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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 (bird), 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:pg22373:56:77
# text = There is a bird, probably the peewit, which during dry weather may be seen always on the wing, and piteously crying _Peet, Peet_,[432] as if begging for water.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	peewit	peewit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Peet	Peet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Peet	Peet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	432	432	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a bird |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | may · passive |  | the peewit |  | the wing | during dry weather | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | a bird *not said here* | Peet and Peet |  |  |  | piteously *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peet=Topic |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | a bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for water | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for water=Topic |

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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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