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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 33

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Every here and there, indeed, a tag of genuine comedy has evidently been attached by the story-teller to a narrative which in its original form was probably devoid of the comic element.

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**Who acts:** story teller, narrative, tag · **What happens:** attach, be, tag, form · **To what, where:** tag, original form, genuine comedy

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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 (story teller, narrative, tag), 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:pg22373:11:33
# text = Every here and there, indeed, a tag of genuine comedy has evidently been attached by the story-teller to a narrative which in its original form was probably devoid of the comic element.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tag	tag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	comedy	comedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	evidently	evidently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	devoid	devoid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | present · perfect · passive | the story teller to a narrative | a tag of genuine comedy |  |  |  | evidently *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | a narrative |  |  | tag's original form |  | of the comic element; devoid, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tag** |  |  | genuine comedy |  |  |  |  | nom tag «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **form** |  | tag |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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