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title: The diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends are const… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends are constantly changing the proportions of their figures, the nature of their attributes. Who acts: diabolical characters, proportions. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, par
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 136

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The diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends are constantly changing the proportions of their figures, the nature of their attributes.

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**Who acts:** diabolical characters, proportions · **What happens:** change, figure · **To what, where:** proportions

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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 (diabolical characters, proportions), 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:pg22373:59:136
# text = The diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends are constantly changing the proportions of their figures, the nature of their attributes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	constantly	constantly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	proportions	proportion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	attributes	attribute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · progressive | the diabolical characters in the Russian tales and legends | the proportions of proportions's figures  the nature of proportions's attributes |  |  |  | constantly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proportion=Patient |
| 2 | **figure** |  | proportions *= proportion* |  |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: 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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