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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 150

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Since that time," says the story, "no one has ever set foot in that heavenly izbushka--so no one knows anything more about it."

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** say, set, know · **To what, where:** story, one, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg22373:51:150
# text = Since that time," says the story, "no one has ever set foot in that heavenly izbushka--so no one knows anything more about it."
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
20	izbushka	izbushka	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	19	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  | the story |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present · perfect · passive |  | no one |  |  | ever |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination |
| 3 | **know** | present | no one | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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