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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 128

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Page 59--the author uses the statement, "The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints ...".

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**Who acts:** Page, folk tales, lands · **What happens:** use, delight, gird, tell · **To what, where:** statement, misers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Page, folk tales, lands), 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:pg22373:63:128
# text = Page 59--the author uses the statement, "The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints ...".
1	Page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	59	59	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	delight	delight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	gird	gird	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	misers	miser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	skinflints	skinflint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	...	...	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Page | the statement |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent statement=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **delight** *in a quote* | present | the folk tales of all lands |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gird** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the folk tales of all lands *not said here* |  |  | misers and skinflints |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *in a quote* |  | all lands |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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