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title: [415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: [415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had so much difficulty in overcoming. Who acts: Grettir, much difficulty. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 5, sentence 73

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\[415\] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had so much difficulty in overcoming.

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**Who acts:** Grettir, much difficulty · **What happens:** have, overcome · **To what, where:** terrible spectre

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grettir, much difficulty), 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:pg22373:55:73
# text = [415] As in the case of Glam, the terrible spectre which Grettir had so much difficulty in overcoming.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	415	415	NUM	CD	ExtPos=PROPN|NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	As	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Glam	Glam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obj	_	_
15	Grettir	Grettir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	overcoming	overcome	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Grettir | the terrible spectre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overcome** | gerund | much difficulty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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