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description: [425] These two stories are quoted by Buslaef, in a valuable essay on "The Russian Popular Epos." " Who acts: Buslaef. 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 39

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\[425\] These two stories are quoted by Buslaef, in a valuable essay on "The Russian Popular Epos." "

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**Who acts:** Buslaef · **What happens:** quote · **To what, where:** two stories

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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 (Buslaef), 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:pg22373:62:39
# text = [425] These two stories are quoted by Buslaef, in a valuable essay on "The Russian Popular Epos." "
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	425	425	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Buslaef	Buslaef	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	essay	essay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Epos	Epos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · passive | Buslaef | this two stories |  |  |  | 425 *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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