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title: THE FOOL AND THE BIRCH-TREE 62 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE FOOL AND THE BIRCH-TREE 62 A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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, sentence 29

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THE FOOL AND THE BIRCH-TREE 62

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS. 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:pg22373:9:29
# text = THE FOOL AND THE BIRCH-TREE 62
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOOL	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	BIRCH	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	TREE	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	62	62	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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