--- title: The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints, to place them in unpleasant positions, and to gloat over the sufferings which attend their death and embitter their ghostly existence. Who acts: folk tales, sufferings, lands. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collectio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/65/) [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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/) / 65 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 65 The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints, to place them in unpleasant positions, and to gloat over the sufferings which attend their death and embitter their ghostly existence. **Who acts:** folk tales, sufferings, lands · **What happens:** delight, gird, gloat, attend, embitter, tell · **To what, where:** place, misers, sufferings, death, ghostly existence · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (folk tales, sufferings, lands), 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:pg22373:16:65 # text = The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints, to place them in unpleasant positions, and to gloat over the sufferings which attend their death and embitter their ghostly existence. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 delight delight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 gird gird VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 misers miser NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 skinflints skinflint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 unpleasant unpleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 positions position NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 gloat gloat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 26 over over ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sufferings suffering NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 attend attend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 embitter embitter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 ghostly ghostly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **delight** | present | the folk tales of all lands | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **gird** | to-infinitive | the folk tales of all lands *not said here* | place skinflints in unpleasant positions | | misers and skinflints | | | tree rules | | 3 | **gloat** | to-infinitive | the folk tales of all lands *not said here* | | | the sufferings | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **attend** | present | the sufferings | sufferings's death | | | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Goal | | 5 | **embitter** | present | the sufferings *not said here* | sufferings's ghostly existence | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent existence=Patient | | 6 | **tell** | | all lands | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **die** | | sufferings *= suffering* | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **exist** | | sufferings *= suffering* | | | | | | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/16/66/) - ↑ back to [Chapter I. 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