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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 34

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And thus from the Russian tales may be derived some idea of the mental characteristics of the Russian peasantry--one which is very incomplete, but, within its narrow limits, sufficiently accurate.

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**What happens:** derive, be · **To what, where:** Russian tales

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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: 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:pg22373:11:34
# text = And thus from the Russian tales may be derived some idea of the mental characteristics of the Russian peasantry--one which is very incomplete, but, within its narrow limits, sufficiently accurate.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	appos	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	RB	_	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	within	within	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	accurate	accurate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | may · passive |  | the Russian tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | incomplete *property* | tree rules |

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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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