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title: But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure rep… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure represent ancient Slavonic ideas. Who acts: world, stories. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 153

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But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure represent ancient Slavonic ideas.

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**Who acts:** world, stories · **What happens:** be, figure, represent · **To what, where:** stories, ancient Slavonic ideas

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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 (world, stories), 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:pg22373:51:153
# text = But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure represent ancient Slavonic ideas.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	figure	figure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | world |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **figure** | present | stories *= story* |  |  | the stories |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **represent** | present | the stories | ancient Slavonic ideas |  |  |  | far *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=Theme |

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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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