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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 30

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Now in one form and now in another, he glides a shifting shape, of which it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory view.

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**Who acts:** outline · **What happens:** glide, be, obtain · **To what, where:** shifting shape, satisfactory view

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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 (outline), 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:pg22373:19:30
# text = Now in one form and now in another, he glides a shifting shape, of which it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory view.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	glides	glide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	shifting	shifting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	expl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	satisfactory	satisfactory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | present | outline | a shifting shape |  |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | outline *not said here* |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **obtain** | to-infinitive |  | a satisfactory view |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset view=Theme |

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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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