---
title: There are numerous points on which the "lower classes" of all the Ar… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are numerous points on which the "lower classes" of all the Aryan peoples in Europe closely resemble each other, but the Russian peasant has--in common with all his Slavonic brethren--a genuine talent for narrative which distinguishes him from some of his more distant cousins. Who acts: numero
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/29/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/) / 29

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
There are numerous points on which the "lower classes" of all the Aryan peoples in Europe closely resemble each other, but the Russian peasant has--in common with all his Slavonic brethren--a genuine talent for narrative which distinguishes him from some of his more distant cousins.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** numerous points, lower classes, Russian peasant, genuine talent · **What happens:** be, resemble, have, distinguish · **To what, where:** each, numerous points, peasant

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (numerous points, lower classes, Russian peasant, genuine talent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:11:29
# text = There are numerous points on which the "lower classes" of all the Aryan peoples in Europe closely resemble each other, but the Russian peasant has--in common with all his Slavonic brethren--a genuine talent for narrative which distinguishes him from some of his more distant cousins.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	_
16	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	20	obj	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	36	det:predet	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	brethren	brethren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	talent	talent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
44	distinguishes	distinguish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
50	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | numerous points |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **resemble** | present | the lower classes of all Aryan peoples in Europe | each |  | numerous points |  | closely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | the Russian peasant |  |  |  |  | common *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **distinguish** | present | a genuine talent for narrative | peasant |  |  |  | from some | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme from some=Co-Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/28/)
- next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/30/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/)