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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 128

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\[57\] The story is continued very little further by Afanasief, its conclusion being the same as that of "The Wise Wife," in Book vii.

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**Who acts:** Afanasief, conclusion, story · **What happens:** continue, be, conclude · **To what, where:** story

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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 (Afanasief, conclusion, story), 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:pg22373:18:128
# text = [57] The story is continued very little further by Afanasief, its conclusion being the same as that of "The Wise Wife," in Book vii.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	57	57	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	further	further	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Afanasief	Afanasief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | present · passive | Afanasief | the story |  |  |  | 57 *obl*; further, little *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | story's conclusion |  |  |  |  | as that; same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conclude** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: 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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