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LEGENDS, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/) / 15 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 15 By way of a conclusion to this chapter--which might be expanded indefinitely, so numerous are the stories of the class of which it treats--we will take the moral tale of "The Gossip's Bedstead." **Who acts:** we, teller, Bedstead · **What happens:** expand, be, treat, take, tell · **To what, where:** chapter, numerous stories, moral tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, teller, Bedstead), 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:pg22373:62:15 # text = By way of a conclusion to this chapter--which might be expanded indefinitely, so numerous are the stories of the class of which it treats--we will take the moral tale of "The Gossip's Bedstead." 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 conclusion conclusion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 chapter chapter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 expanded expand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 14 indefinitely indefinitely ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 numerous numerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 treats treat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 -- -- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 moral moral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Gossip Gossip PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 Bedstead Bedstead PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expand** | might · passive | | this chapter | | | | indefinitely *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | we *not said here* | the numerous stories | | | | of the class | tree rules | | 3 | **treat** | present | teller | | | | | of the class | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | future | we | the moral tale of the Gossip's Bedstead | | | | by way of a conclusion to this chapter and the numerous stories | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | | 5 | **tell** | | the Gossip's Bedstead | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/16/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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