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description: As in other European countries, so in Russia, the romantic stories of the people are full of pictures bathed in warm sunlight, but they do not often represent the aspect of the land when the sky is grey, and the earth is a sheet of white, and outdoor life is sombre and still. Who acts: romantic stor
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 29

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As in other European countries, so in Russia, the romantic stories of the people are full of pictures bathed in warm sunlight, but they do not often represent the aspect of the land when the sky is grey, and the earth is a sheet of white, and outdoor life is sombre and still.

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**Who acts:** romantic stories, people, sky, earth, outdoor life · **What happens:** be, bath, not represent · **To what, where:** Russia, pictures, warm sunlight, aspect, sheet

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (romantic stories, people, sky, earth), 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:pg22373:39:29
# text = As in other European countries, so in Russia, the romantic stories of the people are full of pictures bathed in warm sunlight, but they do not often represent the aspect of the land when the sky is grey, and the earth is a sheet of white, and outdoor life is sombre and still.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	often	often	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	sombre	sombre	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	parataxis	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	still	still	ADV	RB	_	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the romantic stories of the people |  |  | Russia |  | of pictures; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bath** | participle |  | pictures *not said here* |  | warm sunlight |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **represent** | present · do-support | people | the aspect of the land |  |  |  | often *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot aspect=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | the sky |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the earth | a sheet |  |  |  | of white | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | present | outdoor life |  |  |  |  | sombre *property* | tree rules |

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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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