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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 18

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One of the most popular simpleton-tales in the world is that of the fond parents who harrow their feelings by conjuring up the misfortunes which may possibly await their as yet unborn grandchildren.

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**Who acts:** fond parents, misfortunes · **What happens:** be, harrow, conjure up, await · **To what, where:** feelings, misfortunes, horns

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fond parents, misfortunes), 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:pg22373:17:18
# text = One of the most popular simpleton-tales in the world is that of the fond parents who harrow their feelings by conjuring up the misfortunes which may possibly await their as yet unborn grandchildren.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	harrow	harrow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	conjuring	conjure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	await	await	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	unborn	unborn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the fond parents | tree rules |
| 2 | **harrow** | present | the fond parents | horns's feelings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **conjure up** | gerund | the fond parents *not said here* | the misfortunes |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Result |
| 4 | **await** | may | the misfortunes | horns *= horn* |  |  |  | as unborn grandchildren; possibly *property* | tree rules |

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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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