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title: It would be easy to fill with similar stories, not only a section of… — Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Musc… · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be easy to fill with similar stories, not only a section of a chapter, but a whole volume; but instead of quoting any more of them, I will take a few specimens from a different, though a somewhat kindred group of tales--those which relate to the magic powers supposed to be wielded in modern
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 87

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It would be easy to fill with similar stories, not only a section of a chapter, but a whole volume; but instead of quoting any more of them, I will take a few specimens from a different, though a somewhat kindred group of tales--those which relate to the magic powers supposed to be wielded in modern times by dealers in the Black Art.

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**Who acts:** I, dealers · **What happens:** be, fill, quote, take, relate, suppose · **To what, where:** section, more, few specimens, magic powers, chapter

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dealers), 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:pg22373:46:87
# text = It would be easy to fill with similar stories, not only a section of a chapter, but a whole volume; but instead of quoting any more of them, I will take a few specimens from a different, though a somewhat kindred group of tales--those which relate to the magic powers supposed to be wielded in modern times by dealers in the Black Art.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	section	section	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chapter	chapter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	27	mark	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	quoting	quote	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
28	any	any	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
33	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	specimens	specimen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	49	nmod	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
53	relate	relate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	_
58	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	acl	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	61	mark	_	_
60	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	aux:pass	_	_
61	wielded	wield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	58	xcomp	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	_
65	by	by	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	dealers	dealer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obl	_	_
67	in	in	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
68	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	70	det	_	_
69	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	70	amod	_	_
70	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	66	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fill** | to-infinitive |  | a section of a chapter but a whole volume |  |  |  | with similar stories | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with story=Instrument |
| 3 | **quote** *speech: other* | gerund | I *not said here* | more of section |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 4 | **take** | future | I | a few specimens |  |  |  | a kindred group of tales  those *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent specimen=Theme |
| 5 | **relate** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the magic powers | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to power=Co-Theme |
| 6 | **suppose** | participle |  | the magic powers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **wield** | to-infinitive · passive | dealers in the Black Art |  |  |  | time |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **section** |  |  | a chapter |  |  |  |  | nom section «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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