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title: The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander seems, like Coleridge's Scotch admirer, to find a pleasure in seeing "an idea looming out of the mist." Who acts: Russian peasant, Highlander, idea. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», M
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 73

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The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander seems, like Coleridge's Scotch admirer, to find a pleasure in seeing "an idea looming out of the mist."

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**Who acts:** Russian peasant, Highlander, idea · **What happens:** like, seem, find, see, loom, state · **To what, where:** clear statement, pleasure, idea, mist, facts · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian peasant, Highlander, idea), 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:pg22373:49:73
# text = The Russian peasant likes a clear statement of facts; the Highlander seems, like Coleridge's Scotch admirer, to find a pleasure in seeing "an idea looming out of the mist."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	likes	like	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Highlander	Highlander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	Coleridge	Coleridge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	admirer	admirer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	looming	loom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | present | the Russian peasant | a clear statement of facts |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot statement=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | the Highlander |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | the Highlander *not said here* | a pleasure |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the Highlander *not said here* | a idea |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **loom** *in a quote* | gerund | a idea *not said here* |  |  | the mist |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out mist=Location |
| 6 | **state** |  |  | facts |  |  |  |  | nom statement «communication transitive»: of=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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