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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 157

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The teacher, in this story, is merely called a magician; but as in other Russian versions of it his counterpart is always described as being demoniacal, and is often openly styled a devil, it may be assumed that Oh belongs to the supernatural order of beings.

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**What happens:** call, describe, be, assume, belong, order · **To what, where:** teacher, counterpart, other Russian versions, beings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. 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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**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:pg22373:40:157
# text = The teacher, in this story, is merely called a magician; but as in other Russian versions of it his counterpart is always described as being demoniacal, and is often openly styled a devil, it may be assumed that Oh belongs to the supernatural order of beings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	counterpart	counterpart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	26	advmod	_	_
26	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	advcl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	cop	_	_
29	demoniacal	demoniacal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	often	often	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	openly	openly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	styled	style	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	assumed	assume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
43	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	_
45	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	ccomp	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | the teacher and this story |  |  |  | merely *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **describe** | present · passive |  | teacher's counterpart |  | other Russian versions of magician |  | always *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | demoniacal *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | often, openly, style *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **assume** | may · passive |  | counterpart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **belong** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the supernatural order of beings | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **order** |  |  | beings |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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