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description: The Polyphemus story has been so thoroughly investigated by Wilhelm Grimm,[228] that there is no occasion to dwell upon it here. Who acts: Wilhelm, occasion. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree a
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 110

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The Polyphemus story has been so thoroughly investigated by Wilhelm Grimm,\[228\] that there is no occasion to dwell upon it here.

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**Who acts:** Wilhelm, occasion · **What happens:** investigate, be, dwell · **To what, where:** Polyphemus story, occasion

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wilhelm, occasion), 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:pg22373:35:110
# text = The Polyphemus story has been so thoroughly investigated by Wilhelm Grimm,[228] that there is no occasion to dwell upon it here.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	investigated	investigate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Wilhelm	Wilhelm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	228	228	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **investigate** | present · perfect · passive | Wilhelm | the Polyphemus story |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | no occasion |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | no occasion *not said here* |  |  | occasion; here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |

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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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