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description: So far as folk-songs are concerned, this statement appears to be well founded, but it can be applied to the folk-tales of Europe only within very narrow limits. Who acts: folk songs, statement, Europe. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTROD
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 17

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So far as folk-songs are concerned, this statement appears to be well founded, but it can be applied to the folk-tales of Europe only within very narrow limits.

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**Who acts:** folk songs, statement, Europe · **What happens:** be, appear, found, apply, tell · **To what, where:** statement · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (folk songs, statement, Europe), 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:pg22373:11:17
# text = So far as folk-songs are concerned, this statement appears to be well founded, but it can be applied to the folk-tales of Europe only within very narrow limits.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	founded	found	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	only	only	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
31	within	within	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	very	very	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | folk songs |  |  |  |  | concerned *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | this statement |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **found** | to-infinitive · passive | this statement *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **apply** | can · passive |  | statement |  |  |  | to the folk tales of Europe; within narrow limits | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Europe |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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