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title: [There is a story in the "Panchatantra" (v. 12) which, in default of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [There is a story in the "Panchatantra" (v. 12) which, in default of other parallels, may be worth comparing with that part of this Skazka which refers to the blind man and the cripple in the forest. Who acts: story, Skazka, other parallels. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 128

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\[There is a story in the "Panchatantra" (v. 12) which, in default of other parallels, may be worth comparing with that part of this Skazka which refers to the blind man and the cripple in the forest.

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**Who acts:** story, Skazka, other parallels · **What happens:** be, v., compare, refer, default · **To what, where:** default

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Skazka, other parallels), 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:pg22373:44:128
# text = [There is a story in the "Panchatantra" (v. 12) which, in default of other parallels, may be worth comparing with that part of this Skazka which refers to the blind man and the cripple in the forest.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	v.	v.	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	default	default	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
26	comparing	compare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	refers	refer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	cripple	cripple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a story in the Panchatantra |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **v.** | infinitive |  |  |  | default of other parallels |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | may |  |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **compare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with that part of this Skazka | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with part=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **refer** | present | this Skazka |  |  |  |  | to the blind man and the cripple in the forest | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to man=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **default** |  | other parallels |  |  |  |  |  | nom default «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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