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description: But instead of giving mere extracts from any more of the numerous stories to which the fruitful subject of woman's caprice has given rise, we will quote a couple of such tales at length. Who acts: we. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODU
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 34

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But instead of giving mere extracts from any more of the numerous stories to which the fruitful subject of woman's caprice has given rise, we will quote a couple of such tales at length.

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** give, quote · **To what, where:** mere extracts, fruitful subject, couple, length

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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), 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:pg22373:15:34
# text = But instead of giving mere extracts from any more of the numerous stories to which the fruitful subject of woman's caprice has given rise, we will quote a couple of such tales at length.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	extracts	extract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	subject	subject	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	caprice	caprice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
25	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	quote	quote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | mere extracts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extract=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | the fruitful subject of woman's caprice |  |  |  | to any more numerous stories | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | future | we | a couple of such tales |  | length |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Topic |

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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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