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title: Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by NOEL L. NISBET — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by NOEL L. NISBET A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 3

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Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by NOEL L. NISBET

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**What happens:** illustrate · **To what, where:** Colour

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. 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:pg29672:1:3
# text = Illustrated in Colour and Black and White by NOEL L. NISBET
1	Illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	White	White	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	NOEL	NOEL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	L.	L.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	NISBET	NISBET	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illustrate** | participle |  |  |  | Colour and Black and White |  | by NOEL | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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