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description: No better specimen of the stories of this class referring to drunkenness can be offered than the history of-- Who acts: class. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 85

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No better specimen of the stories of this class referring to drunkenness can be offered than the history of--

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**Who acts:** class · **What happens:** refer, offer · **To what, where:** better specimen

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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 (class), 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:pg22373:14:85
# text = No better specimen of the stories of this class referring to drunkenness can be offered than the history of--
1	No	no	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	specimen	specimen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	referring	refer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drunkenness	drunkenness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | gerund | this class *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to drunkenness | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to drunkenness=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **offer** | can · passive |  | better specimen of the stories of this class |  |  |  | than the history | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |

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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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