Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 30
And the stories which are current among the Russian peasantry are for the most part exceedingly well narrated.
Who acts: stories · What happens: be, narrate · To what, where: most part
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 part | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stories | det |
| 3 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 part | nsubj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 current | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 current | cop |
| 6 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stories | acl:relcl |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 peasantry | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peasantry | det |
| 9 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 peasantry | amod |
| 10 | peasantry | peasantry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 current | obl |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 part | cop |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 part | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 part | amod |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 18 narrated | advmod |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 narrated | advmod |
| 18 | narrated | narrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 part | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stories | among the Russian peasantry; current property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the stories | for the most part | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | narrate speech: other | participle | the most part not said here | exceedingly, well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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