Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 24

The stories which are common to all Europe differ, no doubt, in different countries, but their variations, so far as their matter is concerned, seem to be due less to the moral character than to the geographical distribution of their reciters.

Who acts: stories, matter, variations · What happens: be, differ, seem, vary, matter, distribute · To what, where: doubt, variations, reciters

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, matter, variations), 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	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 differ	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 common	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Europe	det
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 common	obl
9	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 doubt	det
12	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 differ	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 countries	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 countries	case
15	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doubt	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seem	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 seem	cc
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 variations	nmod:poss
20	variations	variation	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 seem	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 concerned	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 far	advmod
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 concerned	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 concerned	mark
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 matter	nmod:poss
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 concerned	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 concerned	cop
28	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 variations	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 variations	punct
30	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 differ	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	34 less	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 less	cop
33	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	34 less	advmod
34	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 seem	xcomp
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 character	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 character	det
37	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 character	amod
38	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 less	obl
39	than	than	ADP	_	43 distribution	case
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 distribution	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 distribution	det
42	geographical	geographical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 distribution	amod
43	distribution	distribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 less	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 reciters	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 reciters	nmod:poss
46	reciters	reciter	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 distribution	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 differ	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stories		to all Europe; common property	tree rules
2	differ	present	the stories	no doubt and different countries		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	stories's matter	stories's variations not said here	concerned, far property	tree rules
4	seem	present	stories's variations			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	stories's variations not said here		to the moral character; than the geographical distribution of stories's reciters; less property	tree rules
6	vary		stories = story			nom variation «event intransitive»: poss=agent
7	matter		stories = story			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
8	distribute			stories's reciters		nom distribution «cognition 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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