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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 46

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Intoxication is not so much an evil to be dreaded or remembered with shame, as a joy to be fondly anticipated, or classed with the happy memories of the past.

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**Who acts:** Intoxication · **What happens:** not be, dread, remember, anticipate, class · **To what, where:** evil

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Intoxication), 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:pg22373:14:46
# text = Intoxication is not so much an evil to be dreaded or remembered with shame, as a joy to be fondly anticipated, or classed with the happy memories of the past.
1	Intoxication	intoxication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	anticipated	anticipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	classed	class	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Intoxication | a evil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dread** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **remember** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with shame; as a joy | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as joy=Attribute |
| 4 | **anticipate** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
| 5 | **class** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the happy memories of the past | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: 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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