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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 14

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For the sake of convenience, we may select from the great mass of the mythical skazkas those which are supposed most manifestly to typify the conflict of opposing elements--whether of Good and Evil, or of Light and Darkness, or of Heat and Cold, or of any other pair of antagonistic forces or phenomena.

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**Who acts:** we, opposing elements · **What happens:** select, suppose, typify, oppose, conflict · **To what, where:** great mass, conflict

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, opposing elements), 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:pg22373:19:14
# text = For the sake of convenience, we may select from the great mass of the mythical skazkas those which are supposed most manifestly to typify the conflict of opposing elements--whether of Good and Evil, or of Light and Darkness, or of Heat and Cold, or of any other pair of antagonistic forces or phenomena.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	convenience	convenience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
18	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	17	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	typify	typify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	opposing	oppose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	amod	_	_
30	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	Cold	Cold	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
53	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	antagonistic	antagonistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	phenomena	phenomena	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | may | we |  |  | the great mass of the mythical skazkas  those |  | for the sake of convenience | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from mass=Source |
| 2 | **suppose** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **typify** | to-infinitive |  | the conflict of opposing elements |  |  |  | manifestly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **oppose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **conflict** |  | opposing elements |  |  |  |  |  | nom conflict «act intransitive»: of=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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