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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 111

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As the idea that "a hasty word" can place its utterer or its victim in the power of the Evil One (not only after death, but also during this life) has given rise to numerous Russian legends, and as it still exists, to some extent, as a living faith in the minds of the Russian peasantry, it may be as well to quote at length one of the stories in which it is embodied.

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**Who acts:** utterer, rise · **What happens:** give, exist, be, quote, embody, mind · **To what, where:** rise, numerous Russian legends, length, stories, Russian peasantry

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (utterer, rise), 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:pg22373:60:111
# text = As the idea that "a hasty word" can place its utterer or its victim in the power of the Evil One (not only after death, but also during this life) has given rise to numerous Russian legends, and as it still exists, to some extent, as a living faith in the minds of the Russian peasantry, it may be as well to quote at length one of the stories in which it is embodied.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	advcl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	utterer	utterer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	One	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	also	also	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	during	during	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
36	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
38	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
47	still	still	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
58	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	_
61	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
66	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	70	nsubj	_	_
67	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	70	aux	_	_
68	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	cop	_	_
69	as	as	ADV	RB	_	70	advmod	_	_
70	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
71	to	to	PART	TO	_	72	mark	_	_
72	quote	quote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	advcl	_	_
73	at	at	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obl	_	_
75	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	74	flat	_	_
76	of	of	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	75	nmod	_	_
79	in	in	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	83	obl	_	_
81	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	83	nsubj:pass	_	_
82	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	83	aux:pass	_	_
83	embodied	embody	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	78	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | place's utterer or place's victim in the power of the Evil One | rise | numerous Russian legends |  |  | as the idea | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to legend=Recipient |
| 2 | **exist** | present | rise |  |  |  | still | to some extent; as a living faith in the minds of the Russian peasantry | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | may | rise |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **quote** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | rise *not said here* |  |  | length |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **embody** | present · passive |  | rise |  | the stories |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mind** |  |  | the Russian peasantry |  |  |  |  | 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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