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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 39

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But instead of doing this, before passing on to the more important groups of the Skazkas, I will quote, as this chapter's final illustrations of the Russian story-teller's art, an "animal story" and a "legend."

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**Who acts:** I, chapter · **What happens:** do, pass on, quote, illustrate · **To what, where:** this, important groups, art

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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 (I, chapter), 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:pg22373:17:39
# text = But instead of doing this, before passing on to the more important groups of the Skazkas, I will quote, as this chapter's final illustrations of the Russian story-teller's art, an "animal story" and a "legend."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	4	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	quote	quote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	teller	teller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pass on** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | the important groups of the Skazkas |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to group=Destination |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | future | I |  |  |  |  | as this chapter's final illustrations of the Russian story teller's art and a legend | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **illustrate** |  | this chapter | the Russian story teller's art |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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