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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 150

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Page 129, footnote \[142\]--Rusalk amended to Rusalka--"For a description of the Rusalka ..."

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**Who acts:** you, Rusalk · **What happens:** footnote, amend, describe · **To what, where:** 142, Rusalka

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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, Rusalk), 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:pg22373:63:150
# text = Page 129, footnote [142]--Rusalk amended to Rusalka--"For a description of the Rusalka ..."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	129	129	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	142	142	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Rusalk	Rusalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	amended	amend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Rusalka	Rusalka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Rusalka	Rusalka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	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* | 142 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **amend** | past | Rusalk |  | Rusalka |  |  | for a description of the Rusalka | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** *in a quote* |  |  | the Rusalka |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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