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LEGENDS, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/) / 36 # Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 36 I shall be still more glad if I succeed in interesting the general reader in the tales of the Russian People, and through them, in the lives of those Russian men and women of low degree who are wont to tell them, those Russian children who love to hear them. **Who acts:** I, low degree, Russian children, Russian People · **What happens:** be, succeed, tell, love, hear · **To what, where:** lives, general reader, interesting, tales · **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 (I, low degree, Russian children, Russian People), 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:pg22373:62:36 # text = I shall be still more glad if I succeed in interesting the general reader in the tales of the Russian People, and through them, in the lives of those Russian men and women of low degree who are wont to tell them, those Russian children who love to hear them. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 4 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 6 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 succeed succeed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 People People PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 32 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 degree degree NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 wont wont ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 46 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 48 det _ _ 47 Russian Russian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 appos _ _ 49 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 50 nsubj _ _ 50 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 acl:relcl _ _ 51 to to PART TO _ 52 mark _ _ 52 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 53 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | shall | I | | | the lives of that Russian men and women of low degree | still | glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | the general reader | | interesting | | in the tales of the Russian People | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in interesting=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | low degree | | | | | wont *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | low degree *not said here* | | tales *= tale* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 5 | **love** | present | that Russian children | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **hear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | that Russian children *not said here* | tales *= tale* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 7 | **tell** | | the Russian People | | | | | | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/62/37/) - ↑ back to [Chapter VI. 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