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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 27

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A story which we find narrated in one country with terseness and precision may be rendered almost unintelligible in another by vagueness or verbiage; by one race it may be elevated into poetic life, by another it may be degraded into the most prosaic dulness.

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**Who acts:** vagueness, one race · **What happens:** narrate, render, elevate, degrade · **To what, where:** story, one country, manner, poetic life, prosaic dulness

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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 (vagueness, one race), 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:pg22373:11:27
# text = A story which we find narrated in one country with terseness and precision may be rendered almost unintelligible in another by vagueness or verbiage; by one race it may be elevated into poetic life, by another it may be degraded into the most prosaic dulness.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	terseness	terseness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	precision	precision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	verbiage	verbiage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	elevated	elevate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	poetic	poetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	obl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	degraded	degrade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	46	advmod	_	_
46	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	dulness	dulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrate** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | a story |  | one country |  | with terseness and precision | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **render** | may · passive | vagueness or verbiage | a story |  |  |  | unintelligible *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **elevate** | may · passive | one race | manner |  | poetic life |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into life=Destination |
| 4 | **degrade** | may · passive |  | manner |  | the prosaic dulness |  | by another | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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