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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 123

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With respect to its origin, there can be very little doubt, such a feature as that of the incense-burning pointing directly to a Buddhist source.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** little doubt

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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 (you), 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:pg22373:15:123
# text = With respect to its origin, there can be very little doubt, such a feature as that of the incense-burning pointing directly to a Buddhist source.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feature	feature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	amod	_	_
24	pointing	pointing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
25	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | imperative | you *not said here* | little doubt and such feature as that |  |  |  | with respect to respect's origin | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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