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description: On the forms and natures of the less conspicuous characters to be found in either class we will not at present dwell. 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 clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 26

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On the forms and natures of the less conspicuous characters to be found in either class we will not at present dwell.

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**What happens:** find, form · **To what, where:** class, conspicuous characters

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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: 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:pg22373:19:26
# text = On the forms and natures of the less conspicuous characters to be found in either class we will not at present dwell.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	natures	nature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc:preconj	_	_
16	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	dwell	dwell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | class |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 2 | **form** |  |  | the conspicuous characters |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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