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title: "Was I born into the world worse than all other men, that not a sing… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Was I born into the world worse than all other men, that not a single girl is willing to marry me? Who acts: single girl. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 144

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"Was I born into the world worse than all other men, that not a single girl is willing to marry me?

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**Who acts:** single girl · **What happens:** bear, be, marry · **To what, where:** youth, world

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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 (single girl), 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:pg22373:60:144
# text = "Was I born into the world worse than all other men, that not a single girl is willing to marry me?
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the youth *= youth* |  | the world |  | bad *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a single girl |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | a single girl *not said here* | the youth *= youth* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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