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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 38

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There is very little information to be gleaned from them, for instance, with regard to the religious views of the people, none with respect to the relations which, during the times of serfdom, existed between the lord and the thrall.

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**Who acts:** little information · **What happens:** be, glean, exist, view · **To what, where:** times, people

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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 (little information), 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:pg22373:11:38
# text = There is very little information to be gleaned from them, for instance, with regard to the religious views of the people, none with respect to the relations which, during the times of serfdom, existed between the lord and the thrall.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	gleaned	glean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	during	during	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
40	between	between	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	thrall	thrall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | little information and instance and regard to the religious views of the people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glean** | to-infinitive · passive | little information and instance and regard to the religious views of the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from Tales *= tale* | vn learn-14-2 «NP V PP.source»: from they=Source |
| 3 | **exist** | participle |  | the times of serfdom *not said here* |  |  |  | between the lord and the thrall | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between lord=Location |
| 4 | **view** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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