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description: Of such as these--of "caps of darkness," of "seven-leagued boots," of "magic cudgels," of "Fortunatus's purses," and the like[296]--it is unnecessary, for the present, to say more than that they are of as common occurrence in Slavonic as in other stories. Who acts: darkness. A sentence of «Russian F
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 2

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Of such as these--of "caps of darkness," of "seven-leagued boots," of "magic cudgels," of "Fortunatus's purses," and the like\[296\]--it is unnecessary, for the present, to say more than that they are of as common occurrence in Slavonic as in other stories.

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**Who acts:** darkness · **What happens:** league, be, say · **To what, where:** more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (darkness), 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:pg22373:42:2
# text = Of such as these--of "caps of darkness," of "seven-leagued boots," of "magic cudgels," of "Fortunatus's purses," and the like[296]--it is unnecessary, for the present, to say more than that they are of as common occurrence in Slavonic as in other stories.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	leagued	league	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Fortunatus	Fortunatus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	296	296	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	conj	_	_
51	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	50	obj	_	_
52	than	than	ADP	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	fixed	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	as	as	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
62	as	as	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	65	amod	_	_
65	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **league** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | darkness |  |  |  |  | unnecessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | darkness *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=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:** «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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