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title: It is not often that such strips are turned to good account, but in… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 76

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It is not often that such strips are turned to good account, but in the Skazka with which we have just been dealing, Ivan finding the rope by which he is being lowered into the abyss too short, ties to the end of it the three strips he has cut from the Baba Yaga's back, and so makes it sufficiently long.

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**Who acts:** Skazka, Ivan, rope · **What happens:** be, find, lower, tie, cut, make · **To what, where:** practice, rope, Ivan, abyss, Skazka, three strips

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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 (Skazka, Ivan, rope), 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:pg22373:29:76
# text = It is not often that such strips are turned to good account, but in the Skazka with which we have just been dealing, Ivan finding the rope by which he is being lowered into the abyss too short, ties to the end of it the three strips he has cut from the Baba Yaga's back, and so makes it sufficiently long.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
24	dealing	dealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
27	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
34	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	lowered	lower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl:relcl	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	abyss	abyss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	too	too	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
42	ties	tie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
50	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	appos	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	Baba	Baba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	Yaga	Yaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	's	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
62	so	so	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
64	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obj	_	_
65	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	63	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · passive |  | practice |  |  |  | to good account; often, turn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | the Skazka and Ivan |  |  |  |  | with dealing | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** | gerund | Ivan *not said here* | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Topic |
| 4 | **lower** | present · passive | the rope | Ivan |  | the abyss |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into abyss=Destination |
| 5 | **tie** | present |  |  |  | the Skazka and Ivan | to the end of practice |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to end=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **cut** | present · perfect | Ivan | the three strips *not said here* |  | the Baba Yaga's back |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent strip=Product from back=Material |
| 7 | **make** | present |  | practice |  |  |  | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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