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title: Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a skazka, who said: A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, 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 2, sentence 88

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Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a skazka, who said:

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**What happens:** come, imagine, say · **To what, where:** skazka · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg22373:20:88
# text = Presently there came in a lady, more beautiful than can be imagined anywhere but in a skazka, who said:
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
14	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | in a lady; presently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lady=Location |
| 2 | **imagine** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF» |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  | a skazka |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in skazka=Manner |

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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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