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description: [232] In the following story, however, the gloomy figure of Woe has been painted in a less than usually sombre tone. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 148

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\[232\] In the following story, however, the gloomy figure of Woe has been painted in a less than usually sombre tone.

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**What happens:** follow, paint, figure · **To what, where:** gloomy figure, sombre tone, Woe

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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: 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:pg22373:35:148
# text = [232] In the following story, however, the gloomy figure of Woe has been painted in a less than usually sombre tone.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	232	232	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Woe	Woe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sombre	sombre	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paint** | present · perfect · passive |  | the gloomy figure of Woe |  | a sombre tone |  | however *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tone=Destination |
| 3 | **figure** |  |  | Woe |  |  |  |  | nom figure «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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