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description: He did so, and the buckets were filled with "such beer as neither fancy nor imagination can conceive, but only a skazka can describe." Who acts: guest, fancy, skazka. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 36

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He did so, and the buckets were filled with "such beer as neither fancy nor imagination can conceive, but only a skazka can describe."

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**Who acts:** guest, fancy, skazka · **What happens:** do, fill, conceive, describe · **To what, where:** buckets, such beer

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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 (guest, fancy, skazka), 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:pg22373:57:36
# text = He did so, and the buckets were filled with "such beer as neither fancy nor imagination can conceive, but only a skazka can describe."
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	conceive	conceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	skazka	skazka	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | guest |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the buckets |  |  |  | with such beer | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with beer=Instrument |
| 3 | **conceive** *in a quote* | can | neither fancy nor imagination | such beer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme |
| 4 | **describe** *in a quote* | can | a skazka |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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