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description: A family likeness will, of course, be traced between all these conceptions of popular fancy, but the gloomy figures with which the folk-tales of the Slavonians render us familiar may be distinguished at a glance among their kindred monsters of Latin, Hellenic, Teutonic, or Celtic extraction. Who act
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 22

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A family likeness will, of course, be traced between all these conceptions of popular fancy, but the gloomy figures with which the folk-tales of the Slavonians render us familiar may be distinguished at a glance among their kindred monsters of Latin, Hellenic, Teutonic, or Celtic extraction.

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**Who acts:** folk tales, Slavonians · **What happens:** trace, render, distinguish, conceive, tell · **To what, where:** family likeness, us, gloomy figures, glance, popular fancy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (folk tales, Slavonians), 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:pg22373:19:22
# text = A family likeness will, of course, be traced between all these conceptions of popular fancy, but the gloomy figures with which the folk-tales of the Slavonians render us familiar may be distinguished at a glance among their kindred monsters of Latin, Hellenic, Teutonic, or Celtic extraction.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	likeness	likeness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	conceptions	conception	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Slavonians	Slavonian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	render	render	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	_
35	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	among	among	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	monsters	monster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Latin	Latin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	Hellenic	Hellenic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Teutonic	Teutonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	extraction	extraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | future · passive |  | a family likeness |  |  |  | between all conceptions of popular fancy | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **render** | present | the folk tales of the Slavonians | us |  |  |  | with the gloomy figures; familiar *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 3 | **distinguish** | may · passive |  | the gloomy figures |  | a glance |  | among figures's kindred monsters of Latin or Celtic extraction | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **conceive** |  |  | popular fancy |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | the Slavonians |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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