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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 11

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Nor is it less difficult, when dealing with the stories of any one country in particular, to settle which may be looked upon as its own property, and which ought to be considered as borrowed and adapted.

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**Who acts:** Nor · **What happens:** be, deal, settle, look, consider, borrow

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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 (Nor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg22373:11:11
# text = Nor is it less difficult, when dealing with the stories of any one country in particular, to settle which may be looked upon as its own property, and which ought to be considered as borrowed and adapted.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	dealing	deal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	settle	settle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nor |  |  |  |  | difficult, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deal** | gerund | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the stories of any one country in particular | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with story=Theme |
| 3 | **settle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | upon period's own property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **consider** | ought · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **borrow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **adapt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: 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 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.

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