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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 104

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But I will not dwell any longer on the story of the Fiddler, as I propose to give some account in the next chapter of several other tales of the same class, in most of which such descriptions of evil spirits are introduced as have manifestly been altered into what their narrators considered to be in accordance with Christian teaching.

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**Who acts:** I, narrators, same class · **What happens:** not dwell, propose, give, introduce, have, alter · **To what, where:** story, account, next chapter, most, accordance, evil spirits · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, narrators, same class), 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:pg22373:52:104
# text = But I will not dwell any longer on the story of the Fiddler, as I propose to give some account in the next chapter of several other tales of the same class, in most of which such descriptions of evil spirits are introduced as have manifestly been altered into what their narrators considered to be in accordance with Christian teaching.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	any	any	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fiddler	Fiddler	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	propose	propose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	obl	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
47	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
48	manifestly	manifestly	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	altered	alter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	xcomp	_	_
51	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	obl	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	narrators	narrator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
57	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	cop	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	xcomp	_	_
60	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dwell** | future | I |  |  | the story of the Fiddler |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on story=Location |
| 2 | **propose** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | some account |  | the next chapter of several other tales of the same class |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 4 | **introduce** | present · passive |  | most |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **alter** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | manifestly *property* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into what=Result |
| 7 | **consider** | past | descriptions's narrators |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | to-infinitive | descriptions's narrators *not said here* |  |  | accordance |  | with Christian teaching | tree rules |
| 9 | **tell** |  | the same class |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **describe** |  |  | evil spirits |  |  |  |  | nom description «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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