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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 20

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The Giants by killing whom our own Jack gained his renown, the Norse Trolls, the Ogres of southern romance, the Drakos and Lamia of modern Greece, the Lithuanian Laume--these and all the other groups of monstrous forms under which the imagination of each race has embodied its ideas about (according to one hypothesis) the Powers of Darkness it feared, or (according to another) the Aborigines it detested, differ from each other to a considerable and easily recognizable extent.

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**Who acts:** Giants, own Jack, renown, Aborigines, other groups · **What happens:** kill, gain, embody, accord, fear, detest · **To what, where:** these, imagination, monstrous forms, Darkness, renown, race

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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 (Giants, own Jack, renown, Aborigines), 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:pg22373:19:20
# text = The Giants by killing whom our own Jack gained his renown, the Norse Trolls, the Ogres of southern romance, the Drakos and Lamia of modern Greece, the Lithuanian Laume--these and all the other groups of monstrous forms under which the imagination of each race has embodied its ideas about (according to one hypothesis) the Powers of Darkness it feared, or (according to another) the Aborigines it detested, differ from each other to a considerable and easily recognizable extent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Norse	norse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Ogres	Ogre	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Drakos	Drakos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	Lamia	Lamia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	Lithuanian	Lithuanian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Laume	Laume	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	40	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	80	nsubj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	under	under	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	obl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	50	det	_	_
50	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	embodied	embody	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl:relcl	_	_
53	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
55	about	about	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
56	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	60	case	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	fixed	_	_
59	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	hypothesis	hypothesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	60	punct	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	Powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	Darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	_
66	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	65	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	76	punct	_	_
69	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	76	cc	_	_
70	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	73	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	73	case	_	_
72	to	to	ADP	IN	_	71	fixed	_	_
73	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	76	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	73	punct	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	Aborigines	Aborigine	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
77	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj:pass	_	_
78	detested	detest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	76	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
80	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
81	from	from	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
82	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	80	obl	_	_
83	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	82	fixed	_	_
84	to	to	ADP	IN	_	90	case	_	_
85	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	90	det	_	_
86	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	90	amod	_	_
87	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	89	cc	_	_
88	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	89	advmod	_	_
89	recognizable	recognizable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	86	conj	_	_
90	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | gerund | the Giants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gain** | past | our own Jack | these |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary this=Theme |
| 3 | **embody** | present · perfect · passive |  | the imagination of each race |  | monstrous forms |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fear** | past | renown | Darkness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer darkness=Stimulus |
| 6 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **detest** | participle · passive | another Aborigines *not said here* | renown |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **differ** | present | all other groups of monstrous forms |  |  |  |  | to a considerable extent; from each | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from each=Co-Theme |
| 9 | **imagine** |  |  | each race |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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