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description: But it is not easy to find stories which can be quoted at full length as illustrations of that humor. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, 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 5, sentence 2

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But it is not easy to find stories which can be quoted at full length as illustrations of that humor.

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**What happens:** not be, find, quote, illustrate · **To what, where:** stories, full length, humor

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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: 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:pg22373:15:2
# text = But it is not easy to find stories which can be quoted at full length as illustrations of that humor.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	humor	humor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | stories |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | can · passive |  | stories |  | full length as illustrations of that humor |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **illustrate** |  |  | that humor |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «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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