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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 132

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The difference which exists between the sketches of fiends contained in these stories is clearly marked, so much so that it would of itself be sufficient to prove that there is no slight confusion of ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings whom they generally call \_chorti\_ or devils.

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**Who acts:** difference, slight confusion, confusion · **What happens:** exist, contain, mark, be, prove, call · **To what, where:** sketches, fiends, stories, difference, demoniacal beings, ideas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (difference, slight confusion, confusion), 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:pg22373:59:132
# text = The difference which exists between the sketches of fiends contained in these stories is clearly marked, so much so that it would of itself be sufficient to prove that there is no slight confusion of ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings whom they generally call _chorti_ or devils.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sketches	sketch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	23	mark	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obl	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	35	det	_	_
34	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
51	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	54	obj	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	_
55	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	chorti	chorti	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	56	punct	_	_
58	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	devils	devil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | present | the difference |  |  | the sketches of fiends |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between sketch=Location |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | fiends *not said here* |  | this stories |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in story=Location |
| 3 | **mark** | present · passive |  | the difference |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **prove** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **does** | present | no slight confusion of ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings and chorti or devils |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **call** | present | confusion |  | the demoniacal beings |  |  | generally *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient |
| 8 | **confuse** |  |  | ideas in the minds of the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **mind** |  |  | the Russian peasants with regard to the demoniacal beings |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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