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title: (_chortenok_ = a little _chort_ or devil) ..." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: (_chortenok_ = a little _chort_ or devil) ..." A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, 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 8, sentence 126

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(\_chortenok\_ = a little \_chort\_ or devil) ..."

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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: 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:pg22373:63:126
# text = (_chortenok_ = a little _chort_ or devil) ..."
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	chortenok	chortenok	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
5	=	=	SYM	SYM	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	_	_	X	GW	_	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	chort	chort	X	NN	_	8	goeswith	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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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