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title: Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..." — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..." Who acts: skazkas. 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 190

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Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..."

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**Who acts:** skazkas · **What happens:** amend, tell · **To what, where:** shaskas, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (skazkas), 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:pg22373:63:190
# text = Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..."
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
2	262	262	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	shaskas	shaska	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	amended	amend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amend** | participle |  | shaskas *not said here* |  |  |  | to skazkas | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | skazkas | that |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |

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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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