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description: And the stories which are current among the Russian peasantry are for the most part exceedingly well narrated. Who acts: stories. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 30

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And the stories which are current among the Russian peasantry are for the most part exceedingly well narrated.

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**Who acts:** stories · **What happens:** be, narrate · **To what, where:** most part

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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), 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:pg22373:11:30
# text = And the stories which are current among the Russian peasantry are for the most part exceedingly well narrated.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 |  |  |  |  | among the Russian peasantry; current *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the stories |  |  |  |  | for the most part | tree rules |
| 3 | **narrate** *speech: other* | participle |  | the most part *not said here* |  |  |  | exceedingly, well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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