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title: _ In Professor Sypherd’s studies on Chaucer’s _House of Fame_, Chauc… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ In Professor Sypherd’s studies on Chaucer’s _House of Fame_, Chaucer Society, 1904, a most valuable note will be found on revolving houses. Who acts: Chaucer Society, Sypherd. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 108

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\_ In Professor Sypherd’s studies on Chaucer’s \_House of Fame\_, Chaucer Society, 1904, a most valuable note will be found on revolving houses.

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**Who acts:** Chaucer Society, Sypherd · **What happens:** find, revolve, study · **To what, where:** valuable note, revolving houses, \_, \_ House

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chaucer Society, Sypherd), 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:pg62509:39:108
# text = _ In Professor Sypherd’s studies on Chaucer’s _House of Fame_, Chaucer Society, 1904, a most valuable note will be found on revolving houses.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Sypherd	Sypherd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	Chaucer	Chaucer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Fame	Fame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Chaucer	Chaucer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1904	1904	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	revolving	revolve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future · passive | Chaucer Society *not said here* | a valuable note |  | revolving houses |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **revolve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **study** |  | Sypherd  Professor |  |  | Chaucer's \_ House of Fame and Chaucer Society |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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