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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 71

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\[382\] In Europe it is usually found in a very crude and fragmentary form, having been preserved, for the most part, as the introduction to some other story which has proved more attractive to the popular fancy.

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**What happens:** find, preserve, prove · **To what, where:** myth, crude form, other story

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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: 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:pg22373:51:71
# text = [382] In Europe it is usually found in a very crude and fragmentary form, having been preserved, for the most part, as the introduction to some other story which has proved more attractive to the popular fancy.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	382	382	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	crude	crude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	_
38	attractive	attractive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | myth |  | a crude form |  | 382 in Europe *obl*; usually *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **preserve** | gerund · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the introduction to some other story | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 3 | **prove** | present · perfect · passive |  | some other story |  |  |  | attractive *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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