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description: [249] Everyone knows how frequent are the allusions to good and bad fortune in Oriental fiction, so that there is no occasion to do more than allude to the stories in which they occur--one of the most interesting of which is that of Vira-vara in the "Hitopadesa" (chap. iii. Who acts: Everyone, occas
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 53

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\[249\] Everyone knows how frequent are the allusions to good and bad fortune in Oriental fiction, so that there is no occasion to do more than allude to the stories in which they occur--one of the most interesting of which is that of Vira-vara in the "Hitopadesa" (chap. iii.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, occasion, allusions · **What happens:** know, be, do, allude, occur · **To what, where:** frequent allusions, more, stories, iii

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, occasion, allusions), 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:pg22373:41:53
# text = [249] Everyone knows how frequent are the allusions to good and bad fortune in Oriental fiction, so that there is no occasion to do more than allude to the stories in which they occur--one of the most interesting of which is that of Vira-vara in the "Hitopadesa" (chap. iii.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	249	249	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	allude	allude	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	43	advmod	_	_
43	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	60	obl	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	Vira	Vira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	vara	vara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	Hitopadesa	Hitopadesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	55	punct	_	_
57	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	_
60	iii	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the frequent allusions |  |  |  | to good fortune in Oriental fiction | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present | no occasion |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | no occasion *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 5 | **allude** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to the stories | tree rules |
| 6 | **occur** | present | allusions *= allusion* |  |  | the stories |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 7 | **is a** | present |  | iii |  |  |  | of Vira vara in the Hitopadesa | 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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