Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 27

A story which we find narrated in one country with terseness and precision may be rendered almost unintelligible in another by vagueness or verbiage; by one race it may be elevated into poetic life, by another it may be degraded into the most prosaic dulness.

Who acts: vagueness, one race · What happens: narrate, render, elevate, degrade · To what, where: story, one country, manner, poetic life, prosaic dulness

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 (vagueness, one race), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rendered	nsubj:pass
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 narrated	nsubj:pass
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 narrated	nsubj:pass
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 narrated	aux
6	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 story	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 country	nummod
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrated	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 terseness	case
11	terseness	terseness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrated	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 precision	cc
13	precision	precision	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terseness	conj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rendered	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 rendered	aux:pass
16	rendered	render	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 unintelligible	advmod
18	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rendered	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 unintelligible	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 vagueness	case
22	vagueness	vagueness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rendered	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 verbiage	cc
24	verbiage	verbiage	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 vagueness	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 elevated	punct
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 race	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 race	nummod
28	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 elevated	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 elevated	nsubj:pass
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 elevated	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 elevated	aux:pass
32	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 rendered	conj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 life	case
34	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 life	amod
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 elevated	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 degraded	punct
37	by	by	ADP	_	38 another	case
38	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 degraded	obl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 degraded	nsubj:pass
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 degraded	aux
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 degraded	aux:pass
42	degraded	degrade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 elevated	conj
43	into	into	ADP	_	47 dulness	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 dulness	det
45	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	46 prosaic	advmod
46	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 dulness	amod
47	dulness	dulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 degraded	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 rendered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	narrate speech: other	present · passive		a story	one country	with terseness and precision	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	render	may · passive	vagueness or verbiage	a story		unintelligible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	elevate	may · passive	one race	manner	poetic life		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into life=Destination
4	degrade	may · passive		manner	the prosaic dulness	by another	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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