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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 40

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Turning from one to another of these accidental illustrations, we by degrees create a mental picture which is not without its peculiar charm.

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**Who acts:** we, mental picture · **What happens:** turn, create, not be · **To what, where:** mental picture

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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 (we, mental picture), 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:pg22373:11:40
# text = Turning from one to another of these accidental illustrations, we by degrees create a mental picture which is not without its peculiar charm.
1	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	accidental	accidental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
14	create	create	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from one to another | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory |
| 2 | **create** | present | we | a mental picture |  |  |  | by degrees | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Result |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | a mental picture |  |  |  |  | without picture's peculiar charm | 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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