---
title: [30] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this "howling" is m… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [30] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this "howling" is more in keeping with the nature of the eastern jackal than with that of its western counterpart, the fox. " Who acts: 30, howling. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTO
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/71/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/) / 71

# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 71

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
\[30\] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this "howling" is more in keeping with the nature of the eastern jackal than with that of its western counterpart, the fox. "

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** 30, howling · **What happens:** remark, be, keep

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (30, howling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg22373:18:71
# text = [30] Professor de Gubernatis justly remarks that this "howling" is more in keeping with the nature of the eastern jackal than with that of its western counterpart, the fox. "
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	remarks	remark	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	howling	howling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	obj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	jackal	jackal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	counterpart	counterpart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | present | 30 |  |  |  |  | justly *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | this howling |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | this howling *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the nature of the eastern jackal than that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/70/)
- next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/72/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/18/)