--- title: The stories which have thus been preserved have no small interest of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: The stories which have thus been preserved have no small interest of their own, but they cannot be considered as fair illustrations of Russian folk-lore, for their compilers in many cases took them from any sources to which they had access, whether eastern or western, merely adapting what they borro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/3/12/) [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/) / [To Him So Deeply Indebted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/3/) / 12 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 12 The stories which have thus been preserved have no small interest of their own, but they cannot be considered as fair illustrations of Russian folk-lore, for their compilers in many cases took them from any sources to which they had access, whether eastern or western, merely adapting what they borrowed to Russian forms of thought and speech. **Who acts:** stories, compilers · **What happens:** preserve, have, not consider, take, adapt, borrow · **To what, where:** stories, small interest, cases, sources, access, Russian folk lore This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, compilers), 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:pg22373:3:12 # text = The stories which have thus been preserved have no small interest of their own, but they cannot be considered as fair illustrations of Russian folk-lore, for their compilers in many cases took them from any sources to which they had access, whether eastern or western, merely adapting what they borrowed to Russian forms of thought and speech. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 3 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 thus thus ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 preserved preserve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl:relcl _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 11 det _ _ 10 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 interest interest NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 considered consider VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 illustrations illustration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 lore lore NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 compilers compiler NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 cases case NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 41 det _ _ 41 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 obl _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 access access NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 48 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 49 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 50 or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 53 merely merely ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 54 adapting adapt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 55 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 54 obj _ _ 56 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 nsubj _ _ 57 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 acl:relcl _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 57 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 62 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **preserve** | present · perfect · passive | | the stories | | | | thus *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **have** | present | the stories | no small interest of stories's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient | | 3 | **not** **consider** | can · passive | | stories *= story* | | | | as fair illustrations of Russian folk lore | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | | 4 | **take** | past | stories's compilers | cases *= case* | | any sources | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from source=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **have** | past | compilers *= compiler* | access | | | | to any sources | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Patient | | 6 | **adapt** | gerund | stories's compilers *not said here* | | | | | merely *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 7 | **borrow** | past | compilers *= compiler* | | | | | to Russian forms of thought and speech | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **illustrate** | | | Russian folk lore | | | | | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **form** | | | thought and speech | | | | | nom form «communication 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/3/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/3/13/) - ↑ back to [To Him So Deeply Indebted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/3/)