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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 121

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Before passing on to another subject, it may be advisable to quote one of the stories in which the value of a good and wise wife is fully acknowledged.

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**Who acts:** ing · **What happens:** pass on, be, quote, acknowledge, value · **To what, where:** subject, one, value, stories, good wife

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ing), 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:pg22373:15:121
# text = Before passing on to another subject, it may be advisable to quote one of the stories in which the value of a good and wise wife is fully acknowledged.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	advisable	advisable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	quote	quote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass on** | gerund | ing *not said here* |  |  | another subject |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to subject=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | may | ing |  |  |  |  | advisable *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | ing *not said here* | one of the stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 4 | **acknowledge** | present · passive |  | the value of a good wife |  | the stories |  | fully *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **value** |  |  | a good wife |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition 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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