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# Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 7

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But that there is a country beyond the sky, inhabited by supernatural beings of magic power and unbounded wealth, is stated in a number of tales of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" type.

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**Who acts:** magic power, known type · **What happens:** be, inhabit, state, know, tell · **To what, where:** country, number, Jack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (magic power, known type), 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:pg22373:51:7
# text = But that there is a country beyond the sky, inhabited by supernatural beings of magic power and unbounded wealth, is stated in a number of tales of the well-known "Jack and the Beanstalk" type.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	unbounded	unbounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	stated	state	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
40	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a country |  |  |  | beyond the sky | tree rules |
| 2 | **inhabit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by supernatural beings of magic power and unbounded wealth | tree rules |
| 3 | **state** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | a country |  | a number of tales of the known type |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | Jack and the Beanstalk |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jack=Stimulus |
| 5 | **be** |  | magic power and unbounded wealth |  |  |  |  |  | nom being «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **tell** |  | the known type |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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