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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 232

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But during (a great part of) the night one could fancy it wasn't there at all, so silently and peacefully did it sleep.

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**Who acts:** babe · **What happens:** fancy, not be, sleep · **To what, where:** all

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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 (babe), 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:pg22373:12:232
# text = But during (a great part of) the night one could fancy it wasn't there at all, so silently and peacefully did it sleep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	parataxis	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | could |  |  |  |  | during a great part | of the night one; silently *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | babe |  |  | all |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sleep** | past · do-support | babe |  |  |  |  | peacefully *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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