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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 6

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In our days the folk-tale, instead of being left to the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance, is sedulously tended and held in high honor by the ripest of scholars.

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**What happens:** leave, tend, hold · **To what, where:** folk tale, careless guardianship, high honor

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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: 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:pg22373:11:6
# text = In our days the folk-tale, instead of being left to the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance, is sedulously tended and held in high honor by the ripest of scholars.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	12	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	guardianship	guardianship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	sedulously	sedulously	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	tended	tend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ripest	ripe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	advcl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund · passive |  | the folk tale *not said here* |  | the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: to guardianship=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **tend** | present · passive |  | the folk tale |  |  |  | sedulously *property* | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **hold** | participle |  |  |  | high honor |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honor=Location |

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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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