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description: Sometimes the demon of the _legenda_ bears a close resemblance to the snake of the _skazka_. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 1

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Sometimes the demon of the \_legenda\_ bears a close resemblance to the snake of the \_skazka\_.

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg22373:62:1
# text = Sometimes the demon of the _legenda_ bears a close resemblance to the snake of the _skazka_.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	legenda	legenda	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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