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title: This attitude of mind is rather like that of a careful observer, who… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This attitude of mind is rather like that of a careful observer, who has become callous, because he is helpless—an attitude of those who serve and stand and wait. Who acts: attitude, careful observer, realism. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependenc
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 37

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This attitude of mind is rather like that of a careful observer, who has become callous, because he is helpless—an attitude of those who serve and stand and wait.

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**Who acts:** attitude, careful observer, realism · **What happens:** be, become, serve, stand, wait

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attitude, careful observer, realism), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:1:38
# text = This attitude of mind is rather like that of a careful observer, who has become callous, because he is helpless—an attitude of those who serve and stand and wait.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	attitude	attitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
6	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	observer	observer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	callous	callous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	attitude	attitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	nmod	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | this attitude of mind |  |  |  |  | of a careful observer and a attitude of those; that *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | present · perfect | a careful observer and a attitude of those |  |  |  |  | callous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | realism |  |  |  |  | helpless *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **serve** | present |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wait** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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