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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 188

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But from these dim sketches of a life beyond, or rather within the grave, in which memories of old days and old friendships are preserved by ghosts of an almost genial and entirely harmless disposition, we will now turn to those more elaborate pictures in which the dead are represented under an altogether terrific aspect.

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**Who acts:** ghosts, we · **What happens:** preserve, turn, represent, ghost · **To what, where:** dim sketches, elaborate pictures, dead, genial disposition

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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 (ghosts, we), 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:pg22373:52:188
# text = But from these dim sketches of a life beyond, or rather within the grave, in which memories of old days and old friendships are preserved by ghosts of an almost genial and entirely harmless disposition, we will now turn to those more elaborate pictures in which the dead are represented under an altogether terrific aspect.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
19	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	friendships	friendship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
32	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
37	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
45	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	46	advmod	_	_
46	elaborate	elaborate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl:relcl	_	_
54	under	under	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
56	altogether	altogether	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | present · passive | ghosts of a genial disposition | this dim sketches of a life or the grave and which memories of old days and old friendships |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **turn** | future | we |  |  | that elaborate pictures | now |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to picture=Trajectory |
| 3 | **represent** | present · passive |  | the dead |  |  |  | under a terrific aspect; in that elaborate pictures | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in which=Attribute |
| 4 | **ghost** |  |  | a genial disposition |  |  |  |  | nom ghost «cognition 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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