--- title: There is a more marked individuality in the Russian tales of this ki… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: There is a more marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind, as compared with those of Western Europe, than is to be traced in the stories (especially those of a humorous cast) which relate to the events that chequer an ordinary existence. Who acts: marked individuality, events, kind. A s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/) / 6 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 6 There is a more marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind, as compared with those of Western Europe, than is to be traced in the stories (especially those of a humorous cast) which relate to the events that chequer an ordinary existence. **Who acts:** marked individuality, events, kind · **What happens:** be, mark, compare, trace, relate, chequer · **To what, where:** stories, ordinary existence · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (marked individuality, events, kind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:19:6 # text = There is a more marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind, as compared with those of Western Europe, than is to be traced in the stories (especially those of a humorous cast) which relate to the events that chequer an ordinary existence. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 marked mark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 individuality individuality NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 16 compared compare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 than than SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 traced trace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 especially especially ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 nmod _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 humorous humorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 cast cast NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 relate relate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 events event NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 44 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 45 chequer chequer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 46 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 ordinary ordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mark** | participle | | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **compare** | participle | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind *not said here* | | | | | with those | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient | | 4 | **trace** | present · passive | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind *not said here* | | | the stories those | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in story=Destination | | 5 | **relate** | present | | | | | | to the events | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to event=Co-Theme | | 6 | **chequer** | present | the events | a ordinary existence | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **tell** | | this kind | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/19/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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