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description: As I have elsewhere given some account of Slavonic beliefs in witchcraft,[357] I will do little more at present than allow the stories to speak for themselves. Who acts: I, stories. A sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, with i
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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 92

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As I have elsewhere given some account of Slavonic beliefs in witchcraft,\[357\] I will do little more at present than allow the stories to speak for themselves.

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**Who acts:** I, stories · **What happens:** give, do, allow, speak, account · **To what, where:** account, present, stories, Slavonic beliefs · **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 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, stories), 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:pg22373:46:92
# text = As I have elsewhere given some account of Slavonic beliefs in witchcraft,[357] I will do little more at present than allow the stories to speak for themselves.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	357	357	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	allow	allow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · perfect | I | some account of Slavonic beliefs in witchcraft |  |  |  | 357 *obl*; elsewhere *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | future | I |  |  | present |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **allow** | imperative |  | the stories |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer story=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for beliefs *= belief* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | Slavonic beliefs in witchcraft |  |  |  |  | nom account «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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