Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 10

But it is not every popular tale which can boast of so noble a lineage, and one of the great difficulties which beset the mythologist who attempts to discover the original meaning of folk-tales in general is to decide which of them are really antique, and worthy, therefore, of being submitted to critical analysis.

Who acts: period, popular tale, great difficulties, mythologist, one · What happens: not be, boast, beset, attempt, discover, be · To what, where: popular tale, mythologist, original meaning, folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (period, popular tale, great difficulties, mythologist), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 tale	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tale	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tale	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 tale	det
6	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tale	amod
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 boast	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 boast	aux
10	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tale	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 lineage	case
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 noble	advmod
13	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lineage	amod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lineage	det
15	lineage	lineage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boast	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 decide	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 decide	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 decide	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 difficulties	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 difficulties	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 difficulties	amod
22	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 beset	nsubj
24	beset	beset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 difficulties	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mythologist	det
26	mythologist	mythologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beset	obj
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 attempts	nsubj
28	attempts	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 mythologist	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 discover	mark
30	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 attempts	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 meaning	det
32	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 meaning	amod
33	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 discover	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 tales	case
35	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tales	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 folk	punct
37	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 meaning	nmod
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 general	case
39	general	general	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tales	nmod
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 decide	cop
41	to	to	PART	_	42 decide	mark
42	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 boast	conj
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 antique	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 which	obl
46	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 antique	cop
47	really	really	ADV	_	48 antique	advmod
48	antique	antique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 decide	ccomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 worthy	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 worthy	cc
51	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 antique	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 therefore	punct
53	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	51 worthy	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 submitted	punct
55	of	of	SCONJ	_	57 submitted	mark
56	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 submitted	aux:pass
57	submitted	submit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 antique	conj
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 analysis	case
59	critical	critical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 analysis	amod
60	analysis	analysis	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 submitted	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	period	every popular tale		tree rules
2	boast speech: other	can	every popular tale		of a noble lineage	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	beset	present	the great difficulties	the mythologist		tree rules
4	attempt	present	the mythologist			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	discover not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mythologist not said here	the original meaning of folk tales in general		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
6	is	present	one of the great difficulties		decide property	tree rules
7	is	present			antique property	tree rules
8	be				therefore property	tree rules
9	submit	gerund · passive			to critical analysis	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: to analysis=Theme
10	mean			folk tales in general		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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