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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 95

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Suffice to say that there can be little doubt as to its being the same as that in which Bluebeard kept the corpses of his dead wives.

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**Who acts:** you, little doubt, Bluebeard · **What happens:** suffice, say, be, keep · **To what, where:** corpses · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, little doubt, Bluebeard), 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:pg22373:23:95
# text = Suffice to say that there can be little doubt as to its being the same as that in which Bluebeard kept the corpses of his dead wives.
1	Suffice	suffice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
20	Bluebeard	Bluebeard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	corpses	corpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffice** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **can** | can | little doubt |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | little doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as little doubt; same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | past | Bluebeard | the corpses of Bluebeard's dead wives |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme in which=Location |

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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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