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description: Popular Tales, their meaning &c., 16-18; human and supernatural agents in, 75-78 Who acts: Tales. 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 9

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Popular Tales, their meaning &c., 16-18; human and supernatural agents in, 75-78

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**Who acts:** Tales · **What happens:** mean

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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), 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:pg22373:63:9
# text = Popular Tales, their meaning &c., 16-18; human and supernatural agents in, 75-78
1	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	c.	c.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	16-18	16-18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	agents	agent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	75-78	75-78	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** |  | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «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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