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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 149

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A somewhat less heathenish story with regard to money is the following, which may be taken as a specimen of the Skazkas which bear the impress of the genuine reverence which the peasants feel for their religion, whatever may be the feelings they entertain towards its ministers.

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**Who acts:** heathenish story, Skazkas, peasants · **What happens:** follow, take, bear, feel, be, entertain · **To what, where:** impress, genuine reverence, feelings

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heathenish story, Skazkas, peasants), 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:pg22373:13:149
# text = A somewhat less heathenish story with regard to money is the following, which may be taken as a specimen of the Skazkas which bear the impress of the genuine reverence which the peasants feel for their religion, whatever may be the feelings they entertain towards its ministers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	heathenish	heathenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Skazkas	Skazka	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	impress	impress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	genuine	genuine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
35	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	det:predet	_	_
41	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	entertain	entertain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
47	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present · progressive | a heathenish story with regard to money |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as a specimen of the Skazkas | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as specimen=Attribute |
| 3 | **bear** | present | the Skazkas | the impress of the genuine reverence |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impress=Patient |
| 4 | **feel** | present | the peasants | the genuine reverence |  |  |  | for peasants's religion and whatever feelings | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Location for religion=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | may | the peasants *not said here* | whatever feelings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **entertain** | present | peasants *= peasant* | whatever feelings *not said here* |  |  |  | towards story's ministers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer |
| 7 | **impress** |  |  | the genuine reverence |  |  |  |  | nom impress «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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