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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 22

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The air we breathe in them is that of Fairy-land; the conditions of existence, the relations between the human race and the spiritual world on the one hand, the material world on the other, are totally inconsistent with those to which we are now restricted.

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**Who acts:** we, air · **What happens:** breathe, be, restrict, condition · **To what, where:** air, land, we, existence

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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 (we, air), 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:pg22373:11:22
# text = The air we breathe in them is that of Fairy-land; the conditions of existence, the relations between the human race and the spiritual world on the one hand, the material world on the other, are totally inconsistent with those to which we are now restricted.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	inconsistent	inconsistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	obl	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	obl	_	_
48	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	51	advmod	_	_
51	restricted	restrict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present | we | the air *not said here* |  |  |  | in invaders *= invader* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the air | land |  |  |  | of Fairy | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with those; inconsistent, totally *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **restrict** | present · passive |  | we |  |  | now |  | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient to which=Goal |
| 5 | **condition** |  |  | existence |  |  |  |  | nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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