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title: THE SINGING-TREE AND THE SPEAKING-BIRD — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE SINGING-TREE AND THE SPEAKING-BIRD A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 32, sentence 51

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THE SINGING-TREE AND THE SPEAKING-BIRD

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**To what, where:** SINGING TREE

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 32. 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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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:32:51
# text = THE SINGING-TREE AND THE SPEAKING-BIRD
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	SINGING	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	TREE	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	SPEAKING	speaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	BIRD	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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