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title: Mr Ralston, I fancy, was the first to call the attention of the West… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr Ralston, I fancy, was the first to call the attention of the West to these curious stories, though the want at that time of a good Ruthenian dictionary (a want since supplied by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky) prevented him from utilizing them. Who acts: I, Mr, first, West. A 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Russian Fairy Tales, sentence 21

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Mr Ralston, I fancy, was the first to call the attention of the West to these curious stories, though the want at that time of a good Ruthenian dictionary (a want since supplied by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky) prevented him from utilizing them.

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**Who acts:** I, Mr, first, West · **What happens:** fancy, be, call, supply, prevent, utilize · **To what, where:** attention, curious stories, want, Mr, Zhelekhovsky · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Russian Fairy Tales. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mr, first, West), 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:pg29672:1:21
# text = Mr Ralston, I fancy, was the first to call the attention of the West to these curious stories, though the want at that time of a good Ruthenian dictionary (a want since supplied by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky) prevented him from utilizing them.
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	Ralston	Ralston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	47	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	though	though	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	Ruthenian	ruthenian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
36	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
37	supplied	supply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	lexicon	lexicon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Zhelekhovsky	Zhelekhovsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	Nidilsky	Nidilsky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	_
47	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
50	utilizing	utilize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	47	advcl	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** |  | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mr |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive |  | the attention of the West | this curious stories |  | time | though the want | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to story=Recipient |
| 4 | **supply** | participle |  | a want *not said here* |  |  |  | by the excellent lexicon of Zhelekhovsky and Nidilsky | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prevent** | past | the first | Mr |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme |
| 6 | **utilize** | gerund | the first *not said here* | Zhelekhovsky |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **attend** |  | the West |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition 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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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