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description: We see the land around a Slough of Despond in the spring, an unbroken sea of green in the early summer, a blaze of gold at harvest-time, in the winter one vast sheet of all but untrodden snow. Who acts: We, gold. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapte
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 43

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We see the land around a Slough of Despond in the spring, an unbroken sea of green in the early summer, a blaze of gold at harvest-time, in the winter one vast sheet of all but untrodden snow.

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**Who acts:** We, gold · **What happens:** see, blaze · **To what, where:** land, Slough

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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, gold), 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:pg22373:11:43
# text = We see the land around a Slough of Despond in the spring, an unbroken sea of green in the early summer, a blaze of gold at harvest-time, in the winter one vast sheet of all but untrodden snow.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Slough	Slough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Despond	Despond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	appos	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	blaze	blaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
36	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
37	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nmod	_	_
41	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	untrodden	untrodden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | We | the land and a unbroken sea and a blaze of gold at harvest time |  | a Slough of Despond | in the spring; winter |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blaze** |  | gold |  |  |  | at harvest time |  | nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent at=obl |

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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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