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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 156

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Page 153--foul's amended to fowl's--"... twirling round on "a fowl's leg.

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**What happens:** amend, twirl · **To what, where:** foul, leg

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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:pg22373:63:156
# text = Page 153--foul's amended to fowl's--"... twirling round on "a fowl's leg.
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	153	153	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	foul	foul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	twirling	twirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
14	round	round	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amend** | participle |  | foul *not said here* |  |  |  | to fowl's -- | tree rules |
| 2 | **twirl** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  | a fowl's leg |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |

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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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