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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 51

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After a glance at the barns and cattle-sheds, and at the garden which supplies the family with fruits and vegetables (on flowers, alas! but little store is set in the northern provinces), we cross the threshold, a spot hallowed by many traditions, and pass, through what in more pretentious houses may be called the vestibule, into the "living room."

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**Who acts:** garden, we · **What happens:** supply, set, cross, hallow, pass, call · **To what, where:** family, flowers, northern provinces, threshold, spot, living room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (garden, we), 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:pg22373:11:51
# text = After a glance at the barns and cattle-sheds, and at the garden which supplies the family with fruits and vegetables (on flowers, alas! but little store is set in the northern provinces), we cross the threshold, a spot hallowed by many traditions, and pass, through what in more pretentious houses may be called the vestibule, into the "living room."
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	sheds	shed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	supplies	supply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	provinces	province	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	cross	cross	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	appos	_	_
48	hallowed	hallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	through	through	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	obj	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	61	amod	_	_
60	pretentious	pretentious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	obl	_	_
62	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
63	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	aux:pass	_	_
64	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl:relcl	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	vestibule	vestibule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
68	into	into	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
70	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	72	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
72	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **supply** | present | the garden | the family |  | flowers and alas |  | with fruits and vegetables | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent family=Recipient with fruit=Theme |
| 2 | **set** | present · passive |  |  |  | the northern provinces | after a glance at the barns and cattle and sheds and the garden but little store |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in province=Destination |
| 3 | **cross** | present | we | the threshold |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threshold=Patient |
| 4 | **hallow** | participle |  | a spot *not said here* |  |  |  | by many traditions | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | the living room |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent what=Theme into room=Destination |
| 6 | **call** | may · passive |  | the vestibule |  | more pretentious houses |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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