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title: _ This is one of the marvellous servants whom fortunate princes poss… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ This is one of the marvellous servants whom fortunate princes possess in folk-lore. Who acts: This, fortunate princes. 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 61

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\_ This is one of the marvellous servants whom fortunate princes possess in folk-lore.

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**Who acts:** This, fortunate princes · **What happens:** be, possess · **To what, where:** one, marvellous servants, 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 (This, fortunate princes), 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:pg62509:40:61
# text = _ This is one of the marvellous servants whom fortunate princes possess in folk-lore.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
10	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | This | one |  |  |  | of the marvellous servants | tree rules |
| 2 | **possess** | present | fortunate princes | the marvellous servants |  | folk lore |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme |

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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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