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description: But although drunkenness is very tenderly treated in the Skazkas, as well as in the folk-songs, it forms the subject of many a moral lesson, couched in terms of the utmost severity, in the _stikhi_ (or poems of a religious character, sung by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels who sing i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 84

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But although drunkenness is very tenderly treated in the Skazkas, as well as in the folk-songs, it forms the subject of many a moral lesson, couched in terms of the utmost severity, in the \_stikhi\_ (or poems of a religious character, sung by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels who sing in front of churches), and also in the "Legends," which are tales of a semi-religious (or rather demi-semi-religious) nature.

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**Who acts:** drunkenness, other wandering minstrels, Legends · **What happens:** be, treat, form, couch, sing, wonder · **To what, where:** Skazkas, subject, folk songs, terms, poems, front

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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 (drunkenness, other wandering minstrels, Legends), 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:pg22373:14:84
# text = But although drunkenness is very tenderly treated in the Skazkas, as well as in the folk-songs, it forms the subject of many a moral lesson, couched in terms of the utmost severity, in the _stikhi_ (or poems of a religious character, sung by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels who sing in front of churches), and also in the "Legends," which are tales of a semi-religious (or rather demi-semi-religious) nature.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	drunkenness	drunkenness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	tenderly	tenderly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
7	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	moral	moral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	couched	couch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	severity	severity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	stikhi	stikhi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	42	punct	_	_
44	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	appos	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl	_	_
53	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	60	amod	_	_
60	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	_
61	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	62	nsubj	_	_
62	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	74	cc	_	_
70	also	also	ADV	RB	_	74	advmod	_	_
71	in	in	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
72	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
73	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	74	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	74	punct	_	_
77	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	79	nsubj	_	_
78	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	79	cop	_	_
79	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	74	parataxis	_	_
80	of	of	ADP	IN	_	92	case	_	_
81	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	92	det	_	_
82	semi-religious	semi-religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	92	amod	_	_
83	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	90	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	90	cc	_	_
85	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	90	advmod	_	_
86	demi	demi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	86	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	semi	semi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	90	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	92	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	90	punct	_	_
92	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	79	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | drunkenness |  |  |  |  | tenderly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **treat** | participle |  |  |  | the Skazkas |  | in the folk songs | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **form** | present | drunkenness | the subject of a moral lesson |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **couch** | participle |  | the folk songs *not said here* |  | terms of the utmost severity |  | in the stikhi | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | participle |  | poems of a religious character and the Legends *not said here* |  |  |  | by the blind beggars and other wandering minstrels | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by beggar=Location |
| 6 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | other wandering minstrels |  |  | front of churches |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 8 | **is a** | present | the Legends | tales |  |  |  | of a semi-religious religious nature | tree rules |
| 9 | **term** |  |  | the utmost severity |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication 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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