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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 6

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He who has read the folk-tales of one country only, is apt to attribute to its inhabitants a comic originality to which they can lay no claim.

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**Who acts:** assertion, tales, one country · **What happens:** read, be, attribute, lay, tell · **To what, where:** folk tales, claim · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (assertion, tales, one country), 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:pg22373:15:6
# text = He who has read the folk-tales of one country only, is apt to attribute to its inhabitants a comic originality to which they can lay no claim.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	apt	apt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	attribute	attribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	comic	comic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	originality	originality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	parataxis	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · perfect | assertion | the folk tales of one country |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | assertion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | apt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attribute** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to country's inhabitants  a comic originality | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | can | tales *= tale* | no claim |  |  |  | to a comic originality | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result |
| 5 | **tell** |  | one country |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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