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description: The leading characters undergo certain transmutations as the scene of the story is shifted, but their mutual relations remain constant. Who acts: leading characters, mutual relations. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 75

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The leading characters undergo certain transmutations as the scene of the story is shifted, but their mutual relations remain constant.

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**Who acts:** leading characters, mutual relations · **What happens:** lead, undergo, shift, remain · **To what, where:** certain transmutations, scene

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leading characters, mutual relations), 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:pg22373:61:75
# text = The leading characters undergo certain transmutations as the scene of the story is shifted, but their mutual relations remain constant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	undergo	undergo	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	transmutations	transmutation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	shifted	shift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **undergo** | infinitive | the leading characters | certain transmutations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shift** | present · passive |  | the scene of the story |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **remain** | present | characters's mutual relations |  |  |  |  | constant *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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