Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 33

Every here and there, indeed, a tag of genuine comedy has evidently been attached by the story-teller to a narrative which in its original form was probably devoid of the comic element.

Who acts: story teller, narrative, tag · What happens: attach, be, tag, form · To what, where: tag, original form, genuine comedy

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 (story teller, narrative, tag), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 here	det
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 there	cc
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 here	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 indeed	punct
6	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 here	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 attached	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tag	det
9	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attached	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 comedy	case
11	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 comedy	amod
12	comedy	comedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tag	nmod
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 attached	aux
14	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	16 attached	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 attached	aux:pass
16	attached	attach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 here	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	21 teller	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teller	det
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teller	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 story	punct
21	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attached	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 narrative	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 narrative	det
24	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teller	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 devoid	nsubj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 form	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 form	nmod:poss
28	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 form	amod
29	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 devoid	obl
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 devoid	cop
31	probably	probably	ADV	_	32 devoid	advmod
32	devoid	devoid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 narrative	acl:relcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 element	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 element	det
35	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 element	amod
36	element	element	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 devoid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attach	present · perfect · passive	the story teller to a narrative	a tag of genuine comedy		evidently property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	past	a narrative		tag's original form	of the comic element; devoid, probably property	tree rules
3	tag			genuine comedy			nom tag «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	form		tag				nom form «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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