--- title: Dr. Benfey has devoted to it no less than sixteen pages of his intro… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: Dr. Benfey has devoted to it no less than sixteen pages of his introduction to the Panchatantra,[52] tracing it from its original Indian home, and its subsequent abode in Persia, into almost every European land. Who acts: Benfey. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/36/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 36 Dr. Benfey has devoted to it no less than sixteen pages of his introduction to the Panchatantra,\[52\] tracing it from its original Indian home, and its subsequent abode in Persia, into almost every European land. **Who acts:** Benfey · **What happens:** devote, trace, page, introduce · **To what, where:** sixteen pages, part, European land, original Indian home, introduction 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 (Benfey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:15:36 # text = Dr. Benfey has devoted to it no less than sixteen pages of his introduction to the Panchatantra,[52] tracing it from its original Indian home, and its subsequent abode in Persia, into almost every European land. 1 Dr. Dr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod:desc _ _ 2 Benfey Benfey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 devoted devote VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 7 no no ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 10 advmod _ _ 9 than than ADP IN _ 8 fixed _ _ 10 sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 pages page NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 introduction introduction NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Panchatantra Panchatantra PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 52 52 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 tracing trace VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 original original ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 subsequent subsequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Persia Persia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 almost almost ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 41 det _ _ 40 European European ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devote** | present · perfect | Benfey Dr. | sixteen pages of Benfey's introduction to the Panchatantra | part | every European land | | | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent page=Theme to it=Goal | | 2 | **trace** | gerund | Benfey Dr. *not said here* | part | | part's original Indian home | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **page** | | | Benfey's introduction to the Panchatantra | | | | | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 4 | **introduce** | | Benfey | | | | | to the Panchatantra | nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/15/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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