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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 61

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The allusions to it are for the most part indirect, as when a princess is said to be more beautiful than anybody ever was, except in a skazka; but sometimes it obtains direct notice.

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**Who acts:** lamp, allusions · **What happens:** be, indirect, say, obtain · **To what, where:** princess, direct notice · **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 (lamp, allusions), 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:pg22373:11:61
# text = The allusions to it are for the most part indirect, as when a princess is said to be more beautiful than anybody ever was, except in a skazka; but sometimes it obtains direct notice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
10	indirect	indirect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obl	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	advmod	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	except	except	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	35	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	obtains	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
36	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | lamp |  |  |  |  | to the most part | tree rules |
| 2 | **indirect** | present | the allusions |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | a princess |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than anybody; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | ever | except a skazka | tree rules |
| 6 | **obtain** | present | lamp | direct notice |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset notice=Theme |

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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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