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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 121

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Page 42, footnote \[37\]--Nicola's amended to Nicholas's--"In another story St. Nicolas's picture is the surety."

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** footnote, amend, be · **To what, where:** 37, Nicola, Nicholas, surety, story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg22373:63:121
# text = Page 42, footnote [37]--Nicola's amended to Nicholas's--"In another story St. Nicolas's picture is the surety."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	footnote	footnote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	37	37	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Nicola	Nicola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
20	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Nicolas	Nicolas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
23	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **footnote** | imperative | you *not said here* | 37 and the surety |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **amend** | participle |  | Nicola *not said here* | Nicholas |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | the surety |  | another story |  |  | tree rules |

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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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