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title: In larger houses there may be a _lezhán’ka_ or heating stove, used a… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In larger houses there may be a _lezhán’ka_ or heating stove, used as a sleeping sofa. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 165

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In larger houses there may be a \_lezhán’ka\_ or heating stove, used as a sleeping sofa.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** \_ stove, larger houses

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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 (you), 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:pg62509:39:165
# text = In larger houses there may be a _lezhán’ka_ or heating stove, used as a sleeping sofa.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lezhán’ka	lezhán'ka	X	FW	_	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heating	heating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | a \_ stove |  | larger houses |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a \_ stove *not said here* |  |  |  | as a sleeping sofa | vn eat-39.1 «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:** «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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