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description: How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?" Who acts: I. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, 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 8, sentence 154

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How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?"

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** great herd, small coffer

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg22373:26:154
# text = How shall I be able to get all this great herd into so small a coffer?"
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coffer	coffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | all great herd |  | a small coffer |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herd=Stimulus |

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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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