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title: In the corresponding Norse tale of "The Master-Smith," (Asbjoernsen… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the corresponding Norse tale of "The Master-Smith," (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 21, Dasent, No. 16) an old beggar-woman is the victim of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment. Who acts: old beggar woman, Master Smith, Smith. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lo
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 117

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In the corresponding Norse tale of "The Master-Smith," (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 21, Dasent, No. 16) an old beggar-woman is the victim of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment.

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**Who acts:** old beggar woman, Master Smith, Smith · **What happens:** correspond, be, tell, experiment · **To what, where:** victim, corresponding Norse tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old beggar woman, Master Smith, Smith), 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:pg22373:59:117
# text = In the corresponding Norse tale of "The Master-Smith," (Asbjoernsen and Moe, No. 21, Dasent, No. 16) an old beggar-woman is the victim of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	corresponding	correspond	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
4	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Asbjoernsen	Asbjoernsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Moe	Moe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	20	nmod:unmarked	_	_
20	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Dasent	Dasent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	experiment	experiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **correspond** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a old beggar woman | the victim |  | the corresponding Norse tale of the Master Smith |  | of the Smith's unsuccessful experiment | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the Master Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **experiment** |  | the Smith |  |  |  |  |  | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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