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title: The stories are not, like the German _Märchen_, neatly rounded off i… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The stories are not, like the German _Märchen_, neatly rounded off into consequential and purposive stories. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 40

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The stories are not, like the German \_Märchen\_, neatly rounded off into consequential and purposive stories.

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**What happens:** round off · **To what, where:** stories, consequential stories

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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: 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:pg62509:1:41
# text = The stories are not, like the German _Märchen_, neatly rounded off into consequential and purposive stories.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Märchen	Märchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	consequential	consequential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	purposive	purposive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round off** | participle · passive |  | the stories |  |  |  | into consequential stories *result*; neatly *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into story=Result |

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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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