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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 1

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There is a good deal of social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings, and at some of the gatherings which then take place skazkas are told, though at those in which only the young people participate, songs, games, and dances are more popular.

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**Who acts:** good deal, gatherings, young people, dances · **What happens:** be, take, tell, participate, deal · **To what, where:** place skazkas, some, songs, social life · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good deal, gatherings, young people, dances), 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:pg22373:12:1
# text = There is a good deal of social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings, and at some of the gatherings which then take place skazkas are told, though at those in which only the young people participate, songs, games, and dances are more popular.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	social	social	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	villages	village	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	during	during	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	evenings	evening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gatherings	gathering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	obl	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	participate	participate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
50	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	52	advmod	_	_
52	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a good deal of social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | the gatherings | place skazkas |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | some | that songs and games |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient song=Topic |
| 4 | **participate** | present | the young people |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooperate-73.1-2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | dances |  |  |  |  | popular *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **deal** |  |  | social life in the Russian villages during the long winter evenings |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act 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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