Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 17

So far as folk-songs are concerned, this statement appears to be well founded, but it can be applied to the folk-tales of Europe only within very narrow limits.

Who acts: folk songs, statement, Europe · What happens: be, appear, found, apply, tell · To what, where: statement · 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 (folk songs, statement, Europe), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 appears	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 concerned	mark
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songs	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 folk	punct
6	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 concerned	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 concerned	cop
8	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 far	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 far	punct
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 statement	det
11	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appears	nsubj
12	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	16 founded	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 founded	aux:pass
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 founded	advmod
16	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 appears	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 applied	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 applied	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 applied	nsubj:pass
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 applied	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 applied	aux:pass
22	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 founded	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	27 tales	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tales	det
25	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tales	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 folk	punct
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 applied	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Europe	case
29	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 tales	nmod
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 limits	advmod
31	within	within	ADP	_	34 limits	case
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 narrow	advmod
33	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 limits	amod
34	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 applied	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	folk songs		concerned property	tree rules
2	appear	present	this statement		far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	found	to-infinitive · passive	this statement not said here		well property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»
4	apply	can · passive		statement	to the folk tales of Europe; within narrow limits	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	tell		Europe			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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