--- title: The rest of the story is not remarkable for its fidelity to modern l… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The rest of the story is not remarkable for its fidelity to modern life, but it will serve as a good illustration of the class to which it belongs--that of stories about evil spirits, traceable, for the most part, to Eastern sources. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Colle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/) / 3 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 3 The rest of the story is not remarkable for its fidelity to modern life, but it will serve as a good illustration of the class to which it belongs--that of stories about evil spirits, traceable, for the most part, to Eastern sources. **Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** not be, serve, belong, illustrate · **To what, where:** class 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 (rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:12:3 # text = The rest of the story is not remarkable for its fidelity to modern life, but it will serve as a good illustration of the class to which it belongs--that of stories about evil spirits, traceable, for the most part, to Eastern sources. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 remarkable remarkable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 fidelity fidelity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 modern modern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 illustration illustration NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 belongs belong VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 appos _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 35 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 evil evil ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 spirits spirit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 traceable traceable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 44 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 Eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | the rest of the story | | | | | for rest's fidelity to modern life; remarkable *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **serve** | future | rest | | | | | as a good illustration of the class | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as illustration=Attribute | | 3 | **belong** | present | rest | | | | | to the class | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **illustrate** | | | the class | | | | | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/12/4/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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