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title: Goblins are very rare in Russian folk-lore; fairies seem to be non-e… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Goblins are very rare in Russian folk-lore; fairies seem to be non-existent. Who acts: Goblins, fairies. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 40, sentence 24

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Goblins are very rare in Russian folk-lore; fairies seem to be non-existent.

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**Who acts:** Goblins, fairies · **What happens:** be, seem · **To what, where:** Russian folk lore

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goblins, fairies), 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:pg62509:40:24
# text = Goblins are very rare in Russian folk-lore; fairies seem to be non-existent.
1	Goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
15	non-existent	non-existent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Goblins |  |  | Russian folk lore |  | rare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | present | fairies |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | fairies *not said here* |  |  |  |  | non-existent *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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