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title: A CURE FOR STORY-TELLING — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A CURE FOR STORY-TELLING 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 72

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A CURE FOR STORY-TELLING

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**To what, where:** CURE

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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: 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:pg62509:39:72
# text = A CURE FOR STORY-TELLING
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	CURE	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	FOR	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	STORY	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	TELLING	telling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

## 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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