--- title: It has been thought strange that such stress should be laid on the e… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: It has been thought strange that such stress should be laid on the employment of certain toilet-articles, to the use of which the heroes of folk-tales do not appear to have been greatly addicted. Who acts: heroes. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/) / 39 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 39 It has been thought strange that such stress should be laid on the employment of certain toilet-articles, to the use of which the heroes of folk-tales do not appear to have been greatly addicted. **Who acts:** heroes · **What happens:** think, lay, not appear, addict, employ · **To what, where:** influence, such stress, employment, certain toilet articles This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:29:39 # text = It has been thought strange that such stress should be laid on the employment of certain toilet-articles, to the use of which the heroes of folk-tales do not appear to have been greatly addicted. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 thought think VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 7 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 stress stress NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 certain certain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 17 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 articles article NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 heroes hero NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 appear appear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 36 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 38 greatly greatly ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 addicted addict VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive | | influence | | | | strange *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **lay** | should · passive | | such stress | | the employment of certain toilet articles | | to the use | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on employment=Destination | | 3 | **not** **appear** | present · do-support | the heroes of folk tales | | | | | of the use | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **addict** | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the heroes of folk tales *not said here* | | | | | greatly *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme» | | 5 | **employ** | | | certain toilet articles | | | | | nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/29/40/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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