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description: Whether as prince or peasant, he alters but very little in his wanderings among the Aryan races of Europe. Who acts: hero, Europe. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 17

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Whether as prince or peasant, he alters but very little in his wanderings among the Aryan races of Europe.

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**Who acts:** hero, Europe · **What happens:** alter, wander, race · **To what, where:** wanderings

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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 (hero, Europe), 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:pg22373:19:17
# text = Whether as prince or peasant, he alters but very little in his wanderings among the Aryan races of Europe.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	alters	alter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Aryan	Aryan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **alter** | present | hero |  |  | hero's wanderings |  | among the Aryan races of Europe | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **wander** |  | hero |  |  |  |  |  | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **race** |  | Europe |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event 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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