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description: Clearer and fuller than these vague and fragmentary sketches of a "heavenly realm," are the pictures contained in the Russian folk-tales of the underground world. Who acts: Clearer vague sketches, underground world. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Gho
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 152

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Clearer and fuller than these vague and fragmentary sketches of a "heavenly realm," are the pictures contained in the Russian folk-tales of the underground world.

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**Who acts:** Clearer vague sketches, underground world · **What happens:** be, contain, tell · **To what, where:** pictures, Russian folk tales · **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 (Clearer vague sketches, underground world), 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:pg22373:51:152
# text = Clearer and fuller than these vague and fragmentary sketches of a "heavenly realm," are the pictures contained in the Russian folk-tales of the underground world.
1	Clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fuller	full	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
6	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
20	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this Clearer vague sketches of a heavenly realm | the pictures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | the pictures *not said here* |  | the Russian folk tales of the underground world |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the underground world |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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