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title: [456] The _prosvirka_, or _prosfora_, is a small loaf, made of fine… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [456] The _prosvirka_, or _prosfora_, is a small loaf, made of fine wheat flour. Who acts: 456. 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 103

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\[456\] The \_prosvirka\_, or \_prosfora\_, is a small loaf, made of fine wheat flour.

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**Who acts:** 456 · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** small loaf

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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: who acts (456), 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:pg22373:62:103
# text = [456] The _prosvirka_, or _prosfora_, is a small loaf, made of fine wheat flour.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	456	456	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	prosvirka	prosvirka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	prosfora	prosfora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | 456 | a small loaf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a small loaf *not said here* |  |  |  | of fine wheat flour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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