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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 110

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\[The principal motive of this story is, of course, the same as that of "The Smith and the Demon," in No. 13 (see above, p. 70).

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**Who acts:** principal motive · **What happens:** be, see

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (principal motive), 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:pg22373:59:110
# text = [The principal motive of this story is, of course, the same as that of "The Smith and the Demon," in No. 13 (see above, p. 70).
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	motive	motive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	flat	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
31	above	above	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:unmarked	_	_
34	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	27	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the principal motive of this story |  |  |  |  | as that; of the Smith and the Demon; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | the principal motive of this story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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