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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 56

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From among the stories which contain the most graphic descriptions of Russian village life, or which may be regarded as specially illustrative of Russian sentiment and humor those which the present chapter contains have been selected.

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**Who acts:** present chapter, Russian sentiment · **What happens:** contain, regard, select, describe · **To what, where:** graphic descriptions, stories, Russian sentiment, Russian village life

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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 (present chapter, Russian sentiment), 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:pg22373:11:56
# text = From among the stories which contain the most graphic descriptions of Russian village life, or which may be regarded as specially illustrative of Russian sentiment and humor those which the present chapter contains have been selected.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	graphic	graphic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	illustrative	illustrative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	contains	contain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present |  | the graphic descriptions of Russian village life |  | the stories |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | illustrative *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **contain** | present | the present chapter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme |
| 4 | **select** | present · perfect · passive | Russian sentiment and humor *not said here* | Russian sentiment and humor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **describe** |  |  | Russian village life |  |  |  |  | nom description «communication 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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