Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 31

Their language is simple and pleasantly quaint, their humor is natural and unobtrusive, and their descriptions, whether of persons or of events, are often excellent.

Who acts: language, humor, descriptions, stories · What happens: be, humor, describe

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 (language, humor, descriptions, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 language	nmod:poss
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 simple	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 simple	cop
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 quaint	cc
6	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	7 quaint	advmod
7	quaint	quaint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 simple	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 natural	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 humor	nmod:poss
10	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 natural	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 natural	cop
12	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 simple	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 unobtrusive	cc
14	unobtrusive	unobtrusive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 natural	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 excellent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 excellent	cc
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 descriptions	nmod:poss
18	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 excellent	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 persons	punct
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 persons	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 persons	case
22	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 descriptions	appos
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 events	cc
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 events	case
25	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 persons	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 descriptions	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 excellent	cop
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 excellent	advmod
29	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 simple	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 simple	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	stories's language	simple property	tree rules
2	be		stories's language not said here	pleasantly property	tree rules
3	is	present	stories's humor	natural property	tree rules
4	be		stories's humor not said here		tree rules
5	is	present	stories's descriptions	excellent, often property	tree rules
6	humor		stories = story		nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	describe		stories = story		nom description «communication transitive»: poss=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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