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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 7

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And by common consent the Raven (or some sort of crow) is supposed to know where this invaluable specific is to be found,\[299\] a knowledge which it shares with various supernatural beings as well as with some human adepts in magic, and sometimes with the Snake.

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**Who acts:** common consent, this, knowledge · **What happens:** suppose, know, be, find, share, sort · **To what, where:** Raven, crow · **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 (common consent, this, knowledge), 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:pg22373:42:7
# text = And by common consent the Raven (or some sort of crow) is supposed to know where this invaluable specific is to be found,[299] a knowledge which it shares with various supernatural beings as well as with some human adepts in magic, and sometimes with the Snake.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
20	invaluable	invaluable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	299	299	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
39	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	34	advmod	_	_
40	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	fixed	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	det	_	_
44	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	adepts	adept	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	53	advmod	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	Snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive | common consent | the Raven |  |  |  | with the Snake; 299 *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | common consent *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | specific *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 5 | **share** | present | a knowledge |  |  |  |  | with various supernatural beings; with some human adepts in magic | tree rules |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | crow |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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