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title: Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the world ov… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the world over—and never find one like her!’ Who acts: beauty. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 289

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Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the world over—and never find one like her!’

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**Who acts:** beauty · **What happens:** search over, not find · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beauty), 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:pg540:7:289
# text = Such a beauty as Marya Morevna one might search for all the world over—and never find one like her!’
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Marya	Marya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Morevna	Morevna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **search over** | might | such beauty as Marya Morevna |  |  |  |  | for all world | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for world=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **find** | infinitive | such beauty as Marya Morevna *not said here* | one |  |  |  | like beauty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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