Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 21

The great bulk of the Russian folk-tales, and, indeed, of those of all the Indo-European nations, is devoted to the adventures of such fairy princes and princesses, such snakes and giants and demons, as are quite out of keeping with ordinary men and women--at all events with the inhabitants of modern Europe since the termination of those internecine struggles between aboriginals and invaders, which some commentators see typified in the combats between the heroes of our popular tales and the whole race of giants, trolls, ogres, snakes, dragons, and other monsters.

Who acts: termination, commentators, our, giants · What happens: devote, keep, struggle, see, typify, adventure · To what, where: those, adventures, other monsters, aboriginals, combats, such fairy princes · 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 (termination, commentators, our, giants), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulk	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bulk	amod
3	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 tales	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tales	det
6	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tales	amod
7	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 folk	punct
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bulk	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 devoted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 devoted	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 indeed	punct
13	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 those	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 those	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 those	case
16	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 devoted	nsubj:pass
17	of	of	ADP	_	23 nations	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 nations	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 nations	det
20	Indo	Indo	X	_	22 European	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Indo	punct
22	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 nations	amod
23	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 those	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 those	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 devoted	aux:pass
26	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 bulk	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 adventures	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 adventures	det
29	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 devoted	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 princes	case
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 princes	amod
32	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 princes	compound
33	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adventures	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 princesses	cc
35	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 princes	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 snakes	punct
37	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 snakes	amod
38	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 princes	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 giants	cc
40	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adventures	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 demons	cc
42	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 adventures	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 keeping	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 keeping	mark
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 keeping	aux
46	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 keeping	advmod
47	out	out	ADP	_	49 keeping	mark
48	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 keeping	mark
49	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 devoted	advcl
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 men	case
51	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 men	amod
52	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 keeping	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 women	cc
54	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 men	conj
55	--	--	PUNCT	_	58 events	punct
56	at	at	ADP	_	58 events	case
57	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 events	det
58	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 men	conj
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 inhabitants	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 inhabitants	det
61	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 keeping	obl
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 Europe	case
63	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 Europe	amod
64	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 inhabitants	nmod
65	since	since	SCONJ	_	71 struggles	mark
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 termination	det
67	termination	termination	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 struggles	nsubj
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 internecine	case
69	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	70 internecine	det
70	internecine	internecine	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 termination	nmod
71	struggles	struggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 keeping	advcl
72	between	between	ADP	_	73 aboriginals	case
73	aboriginals	aboriginal	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 struggles	obl
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 invaders	cc
75	invaders	invader	NOUN	Number=Plur	73 aboriginals	conj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 see	punct
77	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	80 see	obj
78	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	79 commentators	det
79	commentators	commentator	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 see	nsubj
80	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 aboriginals	acl:relcl
81	typified	typify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 see	ccomp
82	in	in	ADP	_	84 combats	case
83	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	84 combats	det
84	combats	combat	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 typified	obl
85	between	between	ADP	_	87 heroes	case
86	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	87 heroes	det
87	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	84 combats	nmod
88	of	of	ADP	_	91 tales	case
89	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	91 tales	nmod:poss
90	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	91 tales	amod
91	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	87 heroes	nmod
92	and	and	CCONJ	_	95 race	cc
93	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	95 race	det
94	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	95 race	amod
95	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 tales	conj
96	of	of	ADP	_	97 giants	case
97	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	95 race	nmod
98	,	,	PUNCT	_	99 trolls	punct
99	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 tales	conj
100	,	,	PUNCT	_	101 ogres	punct
101	ogres	ogre	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 tales	conj
102	,	,	PUNCT	_	103 snakes	punct
103	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 tales	conj
104	,	,	PUNCT	_	105 dragons	punct
105	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	91 tales	conj
106	,	,	PUNCT	_	109 monsters	punct
107	and	and	CCONJ	_	109 monsters	cc
108	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	109 monsters	amod
109	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 keeping	obl
110	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bulk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	devote	present · passive		those		to the adventures of such fairy princes and princesses and such snakes and giants and demons goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to adventure=Goal
2	keep	present · progressive		other monsters		with ordinary men and women and all events; with the inhabitants of modern Europe	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	struggle	present	the termination of that internecine			between aboriginals and invaders	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	some commentators	aboriginals and invaders			tree rules
5	typify	participle			the combats between the heroes of our popular tales and the whole race of giants and trolls and ogres and snakes and dragons		tree rules
6	adventure			such fairy princes and princesses and such snakes			nom adventure «act transitive»: of=patient
7	tell		our				nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	race		giants				nom race «event 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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