Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 32

[13] A taste for acting is widely spread in Russia, and the Russian folk-tales are full of dramatic positions which offer a wide scope for a display of their reciter's mimetic talents.

Who acts: Russian folk tales, dramatic positions · What happens: spread, be, offer, display · To what, where: taste, Russia, wide scope, mimetic talents

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 (Russian folk tales, dramatic positions), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 13	punct
2	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 spread	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 13	punct
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 taste	det
5	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	nsubj:pass
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 acting	case
7	acting	acting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 spread	aux:pass
9	widely	widely	ADV	_	10 spread	advmod
10	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Russia	case
12	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 spread	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 full	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 full	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tales	det
16	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
17	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tales	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 folk	punct
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 full	cop
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 spread	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 positions	case
23	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 positions	amod
24	positions	position	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 full	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 offer	nsubj
26	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 positions	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 scope	det
28	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 scope	amod
29	scope	scope	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 offer	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 display	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 display	det
32	display	display	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 offer	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	38 talents	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 reciter	nmod:poss
35	reciter	reciter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 talents	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 reciter	case
37	mimetic	mimetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 talents	amod
38	talents	talent	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 display	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present · passive		a taste for acting	Russia	13 obl; widely property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in russia=Destination
2	is	present	the Russian folk tales			of dramatic positions; full property	tree rules
3	offer	present	dramatic positions	a wide scope		for a display of Tales's reciter's mimetic talents goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent scope=Theme for display=Goal
4	display			Tales's reciter's mimetic talents			nom display «communication 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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