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description: Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, their value as pictures of Russian life, 19-23; occurrence of word _skazka_ in, 23; their openings, 62; their endings, 83 Who acts: Tales, openings. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, with its d
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 24

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Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, their value as pictures of Russian life, 19-23; occurrence of word \_skazka\_ in, 23; their openings, 62; their endings, 83

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**Who acts:** Tales, openings · **What happens:** value, end

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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 (Tales, openings), 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:pg22373:63:24
# text = Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, their value as pictures of Russian life, 19-23; occurrence of word _skazka_ in, 23; their openings, 62; their endings, 83
1	Skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	19-23	19-23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	skazka	skazka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	endings	ending	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	83	83	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	34	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **value** |  | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  | as pictures of Russian life | nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
| 2 | **end** |  | openings *= opening* |  |  |  |  |  | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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