--- title: [A quaint version of the legend on which this story is founded is gi… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics description: [A quaint version of the legend on which this story is founded is given by Gervase of Tilbury in his "Otia Imperialia," whence the story passed into the "Gesta Romanorum" (cap. clxii.) and spread widely over mediaeval Europe. Who acts: Gervase, story. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Col --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/58/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/) / [Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/) / 58 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 58 \[A quaint version of the legend on which this story is founded is given by Gervase of Tilbury in his "Otia Imperialia," whence the story passed into the "Gesta Romanorum" (cap. clxii.) and spread widely over mediaeval Europe. **Who acts:** Gervase, story · **What happens:** found, give, pass, spread · **To what, where:** story, legend, quaint version, Otia, Gesta Romanorum, Europe This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gervase, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg22373:61:58 # text = [A quaint version of the legend on which this story is founded is given by Gervase of Tilbury in his "Otia Imperialia," whence the story passed into the "Gesta Romanorum" (cap. clxii.) and spread widely over mediaeval Europe. 1 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 quaint quaint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 version version NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 obl _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 founded found VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Gervase Gervase PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Tilbury Tilbury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Otia Otia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 24 Imperialia Imperialia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 27 whence whence ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Gesta Gesta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Romanorum Romanorum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 35 punct _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 40 clxii clxii NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 38 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 45 widely widely ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 over over ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 mediaeval mediaeval NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod:desc _ _ 48 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **found** | present · passive | | this story | | the legend | | | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on which=Source | | 2 | **give** | present · passive | Gervase of Tilbury | a quaint version of the legend | | youth's Otia | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 3 | **pass** | participle | the story | | | the Gesta Romanorum | | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into romanorum=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **spread** | past | the story *not said here* | | | Europe mediaeval | | widely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over europe=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/61/59/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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