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title: Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..." Who acts: me, Women. 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 140

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Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..."

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**Who acts:** me, Women · **What happens:** amend, meet · **To what, where:** Bauerntochter

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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 (me, Women), 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:pg22373:63:140
# text = Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
2	104	104	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	amended	amend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amend** | past | me |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | participle | me *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **meet** *in a quote* | past | Women *= woman* *not said here* | Bauerntochter |  | there |  |  | 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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