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title: The bestiary, or animal story, is common, and the parts which the be… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bestiary, or animal story, is common, and the parts which the beasts enact are similar to the Teutonic fairy-tales. Who acts: bestiary, beasts, parts. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 58

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The bestiary, or animal story, is common, and the parts which the beasts enact are similar to the Teutonic fairy-tales.

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**Who acts:** bestiary, beasts, parts · **What happens:** be, enact · **To what, where:** parts

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bestiary, beasts, parts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:59
# text = The bestiary, or animal story, is common, and the parts which the beasts enact are similar to the Teutonic fairy-tales.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bestiary	bestiary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	enact	enact	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
22	Teutonic	teutonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bestiary or animal story |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **enact** | present | the beasts | the parts |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the parts |  |  |  |  | to the Teutonic fairy tales; similar *property* | tree rules |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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