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description: From the stories which have already been quoted some idea may be gained of the part which evil spirits play in Russian popular fiction. Who acts: evil spirits. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 128

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From the stories which have already been quoted some idea may be gained of the part which evil spirits play in Russian popular fiction.

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**Who acts:** evil spirits · **What happens:** quote, gain, play · **To what, where:** stories, idea, part, Russian popular fiction

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (evil spirits), 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:pg22373:59:128
# text = From the stories which have already been quoted some idea may be gained of the part which evil spirits play in Russian popular fiction.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	quoted	quote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
18	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	play	play	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fiction	fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  | the stories |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **gain** | may · passive |  | some idea |  |  |  | of the part | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | present | evil spirits | the part |  | Russian popular fiction |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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