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description: In vain did he apply to a rich neighbor, who was in the habit of lending goods and money at usurious rates; having no security to offer, he could borrow nothing. Who acts: story, rich neighbor, habit. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGEND
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 27

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In vain did he apply to a rich neighbor, who was in the habit of lending goods and money at usurious rates; having no security to offer, he could borrow nothing.

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**Who acts:** story, rich neighbor, habit · **What happens:** apply, be, lend, have, offer, borrow · **To what, where:** vain, habit, goods, usurious rates, security, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (story, rich neighbor, habit), 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:pg22373:57:27
# text = In vain did he apply to a rich neighbor, who was in the habit of lending goods and money at usurious rates; having no security to offer, he could borrow nothing.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	goods	goods	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	usurious	usurious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
25	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
34	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | past · do-support | story |  |  | vain |  | to a rich neighbor | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in vain=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | a rich neighbor |  |  | the habit |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lend** | gerund | the habit *not said here* | goods and money |  | usurious rates |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | story *not said here* | no security |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent security=Patient |
| 5 | **offer** | to-infinitive | story *not said here* | no security *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **borrow** | could | story | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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