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title: Incomplete as is the account I have given of the Skazkas, it may yet… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: Incomplete as is the account I have given of the Skazkas, it may yet, I trust, be of use to students who wish to compare as many types as possible of the Popular Tale. Who acts: I, students. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7,
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 34

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Incomplete as is the account I have given of the Skazkas, it may yet, I trust, be of use to students who wish to compare as many types as possible of the Popular Tale.

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**Who acts:** I, students · **What happens:** be, give, trust, wish, compare · **To what, where:** account, many types

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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 (I, students), 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:pg22373:62:34
# text = Incomplete as is the account I have given of the Skazkas, it may yet, I trust, be of use to students who wish to compare as many types as possible of the Popular Tale.
1	Incomplete	incomplete	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	as	as	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the account |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect · passive |  | the account |  |  |  | of the Skazkas | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **trust** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of use to students | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **wish** | present | students |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **compare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | students *not said here* | many types |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=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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