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description: Far away in outlying districts of Russia we find the same time-honored quips which have so long figured in collections of English facetiae. Who acts: we, same honored quips. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, with its dep
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 13

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Far away in outlying districts of Russia we find the same time-honored quips which have so long figured in collections of English facetiae.

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**Who acts:** we, same honored quips · **What happens:** outlie, find, honor, have, figure · **To what, where:** same honored quips, collections

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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 (we, same honored quips), 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:pg22373:15:13
# text = Far away in outlying districts of Russia we find the same time-honored quips which have so long figured in collections of English facetiae.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	outlying	outlie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	districts	district	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	honored	honor	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	quips	quip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
20	figured	figure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	facetiae	facetiae	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **outlie** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present | we | the same honored quips |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quip=Topic |
| 3 | **honor** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | the same honored quips |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **figure** | participle | the same honored quips *not said here* |  |  | collections of English facetiae |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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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