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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 176

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\[The "Rip van Winkle" story is too well known to require more than a passing allusion.

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**What happens:** know, require, pass · **To what, where:** Winkle story, more

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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: 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:pg22373:52:176
# text = [The "Rip van Winkle" story is too well known to require more than a passing allusion.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	van	van	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Winkle	winkle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	require	require	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	obj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	allusion	allusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | the Winkle story |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | to-infinitive |  | more |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme more=Precondition |
| 3 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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