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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 88

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This book was originally typeset using three different font sizes: largest for the main body of the text, smaller for the text of the tales, and smallest for the square bracketed author notes.

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**Who acts:** book, square · **What happens:** be, use, bracket · **To what, where:** three different font sizes, author notes

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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 (book, square), 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:pg22373:63:88
# text = This book was originally typeset using three different font sizes: largest for the main body of the text, smaller for the text of the tales, and smallest for the square bracketed author notes.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	typeset	typeset	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
6	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	font	font	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sizes	size	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nmod	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	bracketed	bracket	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this book |  |  |  |  | originally, typeset *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | this book *not said here* | three different font sizes  largest |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 3 | **bracket** | participle | the square *not said here* | author notes |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |

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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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