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title: The secluded princess of these stories may have been primarily akin… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The secluded princess of these stories may have been primarily akin to the heroine of the "Sleeping Beauty" tales, but no special significance appears now to be attributable to her isolation. Who acts: secluded princess, special significance, princess. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Co
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 119

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The secluded princess of these stories may have been primarily akin to the heroine of the "Sleeping Beauty" tales, but no special significance appears now to be attributable to her isolation.

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**Who acts:** secluded princess, special significance, princess · **What happens:** be, sleep, appear, isolate

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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 (secluded princess, special significance, princess), 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:pg22373:45:119
# text = The secluded princess of these stories may have been primarily akin to the heroine of the "Sleeping Beauty" tales, but no special significance appears now to be attributable to her isolation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	secluded	secluded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
10	primarily	primarily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	akin	akin	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	amod	_	_
19	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
25	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl:relcl	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	attributable	attributable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	isolation	isolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may · perfect | the secluded princess of this stories |  |  |  |  | to the heroine; Beauty tales *nmod*; akin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appear** | present | no special significance |  |  |  | now |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | no special significance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to princess's isolation; attributable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **isolate** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom isolation «state transitive»: poss=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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