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description: I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Benfey's invaluable work. Who acts: I, opportunity, my, Benfey. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 114

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I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Benfey's invaluable work.

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**Who acts:** I, opportunity, my, Benfey · **What happens:** avail, acknowledge, obligate, work · **To what, where:** myself, obligations, invaluable work

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity, my, Benfey), 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:pg22373:18:114
# text = I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Benfey's invaluable work.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	avail	avail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	acknowledging	acknowledge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	obligations	obligation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	invaluable	invaluable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avail** | present | I | myself |  |  |  | of this opportunity; gladly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **acknowledge** | gerund | this opportunity *not said here* | my obligations | Benfey  Dr.'s invaluable work |  |  | gratefully *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent obligation=Topic to work=Recipient |
| 3 | **obligate** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **work** |  | Benfey  Dr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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