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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 4

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Of these works that of Afanasief is by far the most important, extending to nearly 3,000 pages, and containing 332 distinct stories--of many of which several variants are given, sometimes as many as five.

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**Who acts:** these, Afanasief · **What happens:** work, be, extend, contain, give · **To what, where:** that, 3,000 pages, 332 distinct stories, many

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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 (these, Afanasief), 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:pg22373:3:4
# text = Of these works that of Afanasief is by far the most important, extending to nearly 3,000 pages, and containing 332 distinct stories--of many of which several variants are given, sometimes as many as five.
1	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Afanasief	Afanasief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	extending	extend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
22	332	332	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	distinct	distinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nmod	_	_
30	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obj	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | these | that |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent that=Material |
| 2 | **is** | present | Afanasief *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far, important *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **extend** | gerund | Afanasief *not said here* |  | 3,000 pages |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | Afanasief *not said here* | 332 distinct stories |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | present · passive |  | many |  |  |  | of several variants; as five | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: many=Theme |

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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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