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description: But it is seldom that a wintry effect is so deliberately produced in them as is the case in the following remarkable version of a well-known tale. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, with its dependency 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 31

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But it is seldom that a wintry effect is so deliberately produced in them as is the case in the following remarkable version of a well-known tale.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, produce, follow, know · **To what, where:** wintry effect, case, remarkable version

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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 (story), 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:pg22373:39:31
# text = But it is seldom that a wintry effect is so deliberately produced in them as is the case in the following remarkable version of a well-known tale.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	seldom	seldom	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wintry	wintry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	case	_	_
22	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | seldom *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **produce** | present · passive |  | a wintry effect |  |  |  | in skazkas *= skazka*; deliberately *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the case |  | the remarkable version of a known tale |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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