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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 150

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It might have been supposed that the fearful efficacy of such an imprecation would have silenced bad language, as that of the \_Vril\_ rendered war impossible among the Vril-ya of "The Coming Race;" but that such was not the case is proved by the number of narratives which turn on uncalled-for parental cursing.

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**Who acts:** Vril, number, narratives · **What happens:** suppose, silence, render, not be, prove, turn on · **To what, where:** word, fearful efficacy, war, such case · **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 (Vril, number, narratives), 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:pg22373:59:150
# text = It might have been supposed that the fearful efficacy of such an imprecation would have silenced bad language, as that of the _Vril_ rendered war impossible among the Vril-ya of "The Coming Race;" but that such was not the case is proved by the number of narratives which turn on uncalled-for parental cursing.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	efficacy	efficacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	imprecation	imprecation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	silenced	silence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
17	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Vril	Vril	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Vril	Vril	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	ya	ya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	Coming	Coming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Race	Race	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
44	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	narratives	narrative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	_
56	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	nsubj	_	_
57	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	acl:relcl	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	RP	_	57	compound:prt	_	_
59	uncalled	uncalled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	parental	parental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	cursing	cursing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | might · perfect · passive |  | word |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **silence** | would · perfect · passive |  | the fearful efficacy of such imprecation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **render** | past | Vril | war |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past |  | the such case |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prove** | present · passive | the number of narratives | the such case |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 6 | **turn on** | present | narratives |  |  |  |  | for parental cursing; uncalled *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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