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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 136

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So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.

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**What happens:** be, alter, suspect · **To what, where:** Prince, worse, appearance, that

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. 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:pg22373:20:136
# text = So much the worse for wear was he, so thoroughly had he altered in appearance, that nobody would have suspected him of being a Prince.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wear	wear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
19	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **alter** | past · perfect · passive |  | the worse |  | appearance |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **suspect** | would · perfect · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a Prince | 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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