Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 158

It is often very difficult, however, to distinguish magicians from fiends in storyland, the same powers being generally wielded, and that for the same purposes, by the one set of beings as by the other.

Who acts: storyland, one set · What happens: be, distinguish, wield, purpose · To what, where: magicians, same powers

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storyland, one set), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 difficult	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 difficult	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 difficult	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 difficult	advmod
5	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 distinguish	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	10 distinguish	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 distinguish	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 distinguish	mark
10	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 difficult	conj
11	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 distinguish	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 fiends	case
13	fiends	fiend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 distinguish	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 storyland	case
15	storyland	storyland	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 distinguish	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wielded	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 powers	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 powers	amod
19	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 wielded	nsubj:pass
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 wielded	aux:pass
21	generally	generally	ADV	_	22 wielded	advmod
22	wielded	wield	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 storyland	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 that	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 that	cc
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 difficult	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 purposes	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 purposes	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 purposes	amod
29	purposes	purpose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 that	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 set	punct
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 set	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 set	det
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 set	nummod
34	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 purposes	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 beings	case
36	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 set	nmod
37	as	as	ADV	_	5 difficult	advmod
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 other	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 other	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 as	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			that obl; difficult, often property	tree rules
2	distinguish	to-infinitive		magicians	in storyland; from fiends; however property	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent magician=Theme from fiend=Co-Theme
3	wield	gerund · passive	storyland not said here	the same powers	generally property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	purpose		the one set of beings			nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: by=agent

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.

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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