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description: In Little Russia the wolves have their own herdsman[448]--a being like unto a man, who is often seen in company with St. George. Who acts: wolves. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 50

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In Little Russia the wolves have their own herdsman\[448\]--a being like unto a man, who is often seen in company with St. George.

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**Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** have, be, see · **To what, where:** own herdsman, Little Russia, man, company

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves), 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:pg22373:58:50
# text = In Little Russia the wolves have their own herdsman[448]--a being like unto a man, who is often seen in company with St. George.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	448	448	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	George	George	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the wolves | wolves's own herdsman |  | Little Russia |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | like a man | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present · passive |  | a man |  | company with George  St. |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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