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title: This collection, though far less rich in variants than Rudchenko's,… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This collection, though far less rich in variants than Rudchenko's, contained many original tales which had escaped him, and was ably edited by Michael Dragomanov, by whose name, indeed, it is generally known. Who acts: collection, Michael. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 30

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This collection, though far less rich in variants than Rudchenko's, contained many original tales which had escaped him, and was ably edited by Michael Dragomanov, by whose name, indeed, it is generally known.

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**Who acts:** collection, Michael · **What happens:** contain, escape, edit, know · **To what, where:** many original tales, collection

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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: who acts (collection, Michael), 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:pg29672:1:30
# text = This collection, though far less rich in variants than Rudchenko's, contained many original tales which had escaped him, and was ably edited by Michael Dragomanov, by whose name, indeed, it is generally known.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	though	though	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Rudchenko	Rudchenko	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	ably	ably	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	edited	edit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	Dragomanov	Dragomanov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past | this collection | many original tales |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tale=Theme |
| 2 | **escape** | past · perfect · passive |  | many original tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **edit** | past · passive | Michael |  |  |  |  | ably *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | collection |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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