Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 35
And a similar statement may be made with respect to the pictures of Russian peasant life contained in these tales.
What happens: make, contain · To what, where: similar statement, Russian peasant life, tales
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: 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 | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 statement | det |
| 3 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 statement | amod |
| 4 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | aux:pass |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 respect | case |
| 9 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 pictures | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pictures | det |
| 12 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 respect | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 14 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 15 | peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pictures | nmod |
| 17 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 life | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 tales | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 tales | det |
| 20 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 contained | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may · passive | a similar statement | with respect to the pictures of Russian peasant life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | contain | participle | Russian peasant life not said here | this tales | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tale=Location |
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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