--- title: So far as they go they are true to nature, and the notion which they… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: So far as they go they are true to nature, and the notion which they convey to a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers is not likely to prove erroneous, but they do not go very far. Who acts: Tales, notion. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/36/) [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/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 36 So far as they go they are true to nature, and the notion which they convey to a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers is not likely to prove erroneous, but they do not go very far. **Who acts:** Tales, notion · **What happens:** go, be, convey, not be, prove, not go · **To what, where:** notion, stranger 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 (Tales, notion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:11:36 # text = So far as they go they are true to nature, and the notion which they convey to a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers is not likely to prove erroneous, but they do not go very far. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 notion notion NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 convey convey VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 customs custom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 villagers villager NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 likely likely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 erroneous erroneous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 41 very very ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Tales *= tale* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | Tales *= tale* | | | | | far, true *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **convey** | present | Tales *= tale* | the notion | a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to stranger=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **is** | present | the notion | | | | | likely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the notion *not said here* | | | | | erroneous *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | Tales *= tale* | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/11/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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