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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 7

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The actors in the \_comediettas\_ of European peasant-life vary but little, either in title or in character, wherever the scene may be laid; just as in the European beast-epos the Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear play parts which change but slightly with the regions they inhabit.

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**Who acts:** actors, play parts · **What happens:** vary, lay, change, inhabit · **To what, where:** European beast epos, scene, regions

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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 (actors, play parts), 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:pg22373:19:7
# text = The actors in the _comediettas_ of European peasant-life vary but little, either in title or in character, wherever the scene may be laid; just as in the European beast-epos the Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear play parts which change but slightly with the regions they inhabit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	comediettas	comedietta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	vary	vary	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc:preconj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	epos	epos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	Bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	_
49	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj	_	_
51	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	51	conj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	_
57	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vary** | present | the actors in the comediettas |  |  | the European beast epos and the Fox |  | of European peasant life | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lay** | may · passive |  | the scene |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **change** | present | the play parts |  |  |  |  | with the regions | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **inhabit** | present | actors *= actor* | the regions *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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