Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 2

Of such as these--of "caps of darkness," of "seven-leagued boots," of "magic cudgels," of "Fortunatus's purses," and the like[296]--it is unnecessary, for the present, to say more than that they are of as common occurrence in Slavonic as in other stories.

Who acts: darkness · What happens: league, be, say · To what, where: more · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (darkness), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 these	case
2	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	4 these	case
3	as	as	ADP	_	2 such	fixed
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	root	root
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 caps	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 caps	case
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 caps	punct
8	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 these	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 darkness	case
10	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caps	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 these	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 boots	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 boots	case
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 boots	punct
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 boots	nummod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 seven	punct
17	leagued	league	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 boots	amod
18	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 these	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cudgels	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 cudgels	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 cudgels	case
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 cudgels	punct
23	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cudgels	amod
24	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 boots	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 purses	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 purses	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 purses	case
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 purses	punct
29	Fortunatus	Fortunatus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 purses	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Fortunatus	case
31	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 cudgels	appos
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 purses	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 boots	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 296	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 296	det
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 296	case
37	[	[	PUNCT	_	38 296	punct
38	296	296	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 boots	conj
39	]	]	PUNCT	_	38 296	punct
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 unnecessary	punct
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 unnecessary	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 unnecessary	cop
43	unnecessary	unnecessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 296	parataxis
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 present	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 present	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 present	det
47	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 unnecessary	parataxis
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 say	punct
49	to	to	PART	_	50 say	mark
50	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 unnecessary	conj
51	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	50 say	obj
52	than	than	ADP	_	51 more	fixed
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 than	fixed
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 of	nsubj
55	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 of	cop
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 occurrence	case
57	as	as	ADP	_	59 occurrence	case
58	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 occurrence	amod
59	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 that	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	61 Slavonic	case
61	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 occurrence	nmod
62	as	as	ADP	_	65 stories	case
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 stories	case
64	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 stories	amod
65	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 occurrence	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 boots	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	league in a quote	participle				tree rules
2	is	present	darkness		unnecessary property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	darkness not said here	more		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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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