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title: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE DNIEPER, THE VOLGA, AND THE DVINA 217 — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE DNIEPER, THE VOLGA, AND THE DVINA 217 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 69

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THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE DNIEPER, THE VOLGA, AND THE DVINA 217

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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:pg22373:9:69
# text = THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE DNIEPER, THE VOLGA, AND THE DVINA 217
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	METAMORPHOSIS	metamorphosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	DNIEPER	DNIEPER	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	VOLGA	VOLGA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	DVINA	DVINA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	217	217	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	flat	_	_
```

## 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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