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description: The stories which are common to all Europe differ, no doubt, in different countries, but their variations, so far as their matter is concerned, seem to be due less to the moral character than to the geographical distribution of their reciters. Who acts: stories, matter, variations. A sentence of «Ru
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 24

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The stories which are common to all Europe differ, no doubt, in different countries, but their variations, so far as their matter is concerned, seem to be due less to the moral character than to the geographical distribution of their reciters.

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**Who acts:** stories, matter, variations · **What happens:** be, differ, seem, vary, matter, distribute · **To what, where:** doubt, variations, reciters

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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 (stories, matter, variations), 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:pg22373:11:24
# text = The stories which are common to all Europe differ, no doubt, in different countries, but their variations, so far as their matter is concerned, seem to be due less to the moral character than to the geographical distribution of their reciters.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	concerned	concerned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
30	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
33	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	34	advmod	_	_
34	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	geographical	geographical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	distribution	distribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	reciters	reciter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | to all Europe; common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **differ** | present | the stories | no doubt and different countries |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | stories's matter | stories's variations *not said here* |  |  |  | concerned, far *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | present | stories's variations |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | stories's variations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the moral character; than the geographical distribution of stories's reciters; less *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **vary** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | nom variation «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **matter** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **distribute** |  |  | stories's reciters |  |  |  |  | nom distribution «cognition 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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