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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 47

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By him drunkenness is regarded, like sleep, as the friend of woe--and a friend whose services can be even more readily commanded.

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**Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** regard, command, service · **To what, where:** friend · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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:pg22373:14:47
# text = By him drunkenness is regarded, like sleep, as the friend of woe--and a friend whose services can be even more readily commanded.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	compound	_	_
3	drunkenness	drunkenness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | present · passive | the friend of woe |  |  |  |  | by him drunkenness; like sleep | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **command** | can · passive |  | a friend |  |  |  | readily *property* | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **service** |  | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=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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