Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 25
The manner in which these tales are told, however, may often be taken as a test of the intellectual capacity of their tellers.
What happens: tell, take, test · To what, where: manner, intellectual capacity · 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: 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 manner | det |
| 2 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 told | obl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 tales | det |
| 6 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 10 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 taken | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 however | punct |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 taken | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | conj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 test | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 test | det |
| 18 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 capacity | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 capacity | det |
| 21 | intellectual | intellectual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 capacity | amod |
| 22 | capacity | capacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 test | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 tellers | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tellers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tellers | teller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 capacity | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the manner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | take | may · passive | as a test of the intellectual capacity of Tales's tellers; however, often property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as test=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | test | the intellectual capacity of Tales's tellers | nom test «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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