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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 5

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At length there arrived the season of its final change, when, transferred from the dusk of the peasant's hut into the full light of the outer day, and freed from the unbecoming garments by which it had been disfigured, it was recognized as the scion of a family so truly royal that some of its members deduce their origin from the olden gods themselves.

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**Who acts:** unbecoming garments, some, length · **What happens:** arrive, transfer, free, disfigure, recognize, deduce · **To what, where:** length, full light, unbecoming garments, charity, origin, outer day

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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 (unbecoming garments, some, length), 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:pg22373:11:5
# text = At length there arrived the season of its final change, when, transferred from the dusk of the peasant's hut into the full light of the outer day, and freed from the unbecoming garments by which it had been disfigured, it was recognized as the scion of a family so truly royal that some of its members deduce their origin from the olden gods themselves.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	transferred	transfer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	freed	free	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	unbecoming	unbecoming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	43	obl	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	disfigured	disfigure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj:pass	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux:pass	_	_
47	recognized	recognize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	advcl	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	scion	scion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	advcl	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	62	mark	_	_
58	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	62	nsubj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
62	deduce	deduce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	_
63	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	from	from	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	olden	olden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
69	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	68	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past |  |  |  | length; there | season |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **transfer** | participle |  |  |  | the full light of the outer day | dusk |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **free** | past |  |  |  | the unbecoming garments |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 4 | **disfigure** | past · perfect · passive | the unbecoming garments | charity |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **recognize** | past · passive |  | charity |  |  |  | as the scion of a family | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as scion=Attribute |
| 6 | **deduce** | present | some | members's origin |  |  |  | from the olden gods  gods | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent origin=Theme from god=Source |
| 7 | **change** |  | length |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **light** |  |  | the outer day |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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