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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 90

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It may seem more difficult to account for the willingness of Norka's three sisters to aid in his destruction--unless, indeed, the whole story be considered to be mythological, as its Indian equivalents undoubtedly are.

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**Who acts:** It, Norka · **What happens:** seem, aid, consider, be, destroy · **To what, where:** difficult account, destruction, whole story

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Norka), 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:pg22373:21:90
# text = It may seem more difficult to account for the willingness of Norka's three sisters to aid in his destruction--unless, indeed, the whole story be considered to be mythological, as its Indian equivalents undoubtedly are.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	willingness	willingness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	Norka	Norka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
33	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	equivalents	equivalent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
39	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | may | It | difficult account |  |  |  | for the willingness of Norka's three sisters | tree rules |
| 2 | **aid** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Norka's destruction |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consider** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive · passive |  | the whole story |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | mythological *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **destroy** |  | Norka |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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