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title: In most of these stories the wife-gaining leap is so vaguely describ… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: In most of these stories the wife-gaining leap is so vaguely described that it is allowable to suppose that the original idea has been greatly obscured in the course of travel. Who acts: it. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 113

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In most of these stories the wife-gaining leap is so vaguely described that it is allowable to suppose that the original idea has been greatly obscured in the course of travel.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** gain, describe, be, suppose, obscure · **To what, where:** most, original idea, course · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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:pg22373:45:113
# text = In most of these stories the wife-gaining leap is so vaguely described that it is allowable to suppose that the original idea has been greatly obscured in the course of travel.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	gaining	gain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	leap	leap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	allowable	allowable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	csubj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	obscured	obscure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive |  |  |  | most of this stories  the gaining leap |  | vaguely *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | allowable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suppose** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **obscure** | present · perfect · passive |  | the original idea |  | the course of travel |  | greatly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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