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description: This idea accounts for the otherwise unexplained fact that the heroes of folk-tales are frequently warned that they must on no account be tempted into striking their magic foes more than one stroke. Who acts: idea accounts. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lo
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 128

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This idea accounts for the otherwise unexplained fact that the heroes of folk-tales are frequently warned that they must on no account be tempted into striking their magic foes more than one stroke.

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**Who acts:** idea accounts · **What happens:** be, tempt, strike · **To what, where:** tales, account, magic foes · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea accounts), 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:pg22373:54:128
# text = This idea accounts for the otherwise unexplained fact that the heroes of folk-tales are frequently warned that they must on no account be tempted into striking their magic foes more than one stroke.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	unexplained	unexplained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	tempted	tempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
27	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	34	advmod	_	_
33	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: warn* | present | this idea accounts for the unexplained fact  the heroes of folk tales |  |  |  |  | frequently, warn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tempt** | must · passive |  | tales *= tale* |  | no account |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
| 3 | **strike** | gerund |  | tales's magic foes |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent foe=Patient stroke=Result |

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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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