Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 19

But the stories of this class are often nothing more than comparatively modern adaptations of old and foreign themes; nor are they sufficiently numerous, so far as we can judge from existing collections, to render by any means complete the national portrait for which they are expected to supply the materials.

Who acts: stories, we, any, old themes · What happens: be, judge, exist, render, mean, complete · To what, where: nothing, existing collections, national portrait, stories, materials · 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 (stories, we, any, old themes), 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	_	9 nothing	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stories	det
3	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nothing	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 class	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 class	det
6	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stories	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 nothing	cop
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 nothing	advmod
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 nothing	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 adaptations	case
12	comparatively	comparatively	ADV	_	13 modern	advmod
13	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 adaptations	amod
14	adaptations	adaptation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 more	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 themes	case
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 themes	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 foreign	cc
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 old	conj
19	themes	theme	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 adaptations	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 numerous	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 numerous	cc
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 numerous	cop
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 numerous	nsubj
24	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	25 numerous	advmod
25	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nothing	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 judge	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 judge	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 judge	mark
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 judge	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 judge	aux
32	judge	judge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 numerous	parataxis
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 collections	case
34	existing	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 collections	amod
35	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 judge	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 render	punct
37	to	to	PART	_	38 render	mark
38	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 judge	conj
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	41 means	mark
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 means	nsubj
41	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 render	ccomp
42	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 means	ccomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 portrait	det
44	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 portrait	amod
45	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 complete	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 expected	obl
48	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 expected	nsubj:pass
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 expected	aux:pass
50	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 portrait	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 supply	mark
52	supply	supply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 expected	xcomp
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 materials	det
54	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 supply	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the stories of this class	nothing		often property	tree rules
2	is	present	stories = story			numerous, sufficiently property	tree rules
3	judge	can	we		existing collections	far property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
4	exist	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	render	to-infinitive	we not said here				tree rules
6	mean	present	any				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	complete	infinitive		the national portrait			vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Eventuality
8	expect	present · passive		stories = story		for the national portrait	tree rules
9	supply not said to happen	to-infinitive	stories = story not said here	the materials			vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Recipient
10	adapt		old themes				nom adaptation «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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