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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 25

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Professor de Gubernatis has discussed at length, and with much learning, the esoteric meaning of the skazkas, and their bearing upon the questions to which the "solar theory" of myth-explanation has given rise.

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**Who acts:** Professor · **What happens:** discuss, give, mean · **To what, where:** length, solar theory, skazkas

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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 (Professor), 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:pg22373:3:25
# text = Professor de Gubernatis has discussed at length, and with much learning, the esoteric meaning of the skazkas, and their bearing upon the questions to which the "solar theory" of myth-explanation has given rise.
1	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Gubernatis	Gubernatis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	esoteric	esoteric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	solar	solar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	theory	theory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
40	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discuss** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Professor |  |  | length |  | with much learning and the esoteric meaning of the skazkas and skazkas's bearing upon the questions | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with learning=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | the solar theory of myth explanation |  |  |  | to the questions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme |
| 3 | **mean** |  |  | the skazkas |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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