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INTRODUCTORY, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/) / 10 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 10 But it is not every popular tale which can boast of so noble a lineage, and one of the great difficulties which beset the mythologist who attempts to discover the original meaning of folk-tales in general is to decide which of them are really antique, and worthy, therefore, of being submitted to critical analysis. **Who acts:** period, popular tale, great difficulties, mythologist, one · **What happens:** not be, boast, beset, attempt, discover, be · **To what, where:** popular tale, mythologist, original meaning, folk tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (period, popular tale, great difficulties, mythologist), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg22373:11:10 # text = But it is not every popular tale which can boast of so noble a lineage, and one of the great difficulties which beset the mythologist who attempts to discover the original meaning of folk-tales in general is to decide which of them are really antique, and worthy, therefore, of being submitted to critical analysis. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 6 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 boast boast VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 noble noble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lineage lineage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nsubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 difficulties difficulty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 beset beset VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 mythologist mythologist NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 attempts attempt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 general general NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 decide decide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 48 nsubj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 really really ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 antique antique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 55 of of SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 56 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 aux:pass _ _ 57 submitted submit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 conj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 critical critical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 analysis analysis NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | period | every popular tale | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **boast** *speech: other* | can | every popular tale | | | | | of a noble lineage | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beset** | present | the great difficulties | the mythologist | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **attempt** | present | the mythologist | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **discover** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mythologist *not said here* | the original meaning of folk tales in general | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | | 6 | **is** | present | one of the great difficulties | | | | | decide *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | | antique *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **be** | | | | | | | therefore *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **submit** | gerund · passive | | | | | | to critical analysis | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: to analysis=Theme | | 10 | **mean** | | | folk tales in general | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/11/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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