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title: Of these, the story of "The Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas," will s… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these, the story of "The Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas," will serve as a good specimen. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 42

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Of these, the story of "The Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas," will serve as a good specimen.

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**What happens:** serve

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:57:42
# text = Of these, the story of "The Prophet Elijah and St. Nicholas," will serve as a good specimen.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Elijah	Elijah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:desc	_	_
13	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | future |  |  |  |  |  | of these; as a good specimen | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as specimen=Attribute |

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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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