Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 36

So far as they go they are true to nature, and the notion which they convey to a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers is not likely to prove erroneous, but they do not go very far.

Who acts: Tales, notion · What happens: go, be, convey, not be, prove, not go · To what, where: notion, stranger

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 (Tales, notion), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 true	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 far	advcl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 true	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 nature	mark
10	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 likely	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 likely	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 notion	det
14	notion	notion	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 likely	nsubj
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 convey	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 convey	nsubj
17	convey	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 notion	acl:relcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 stranger	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stranger	det
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 convey	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 manners	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 manners	det
23	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	20 stranger	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 customs	cc
25	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 manners	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 villagers	case
27	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 villagers	amod
28	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 customs	nmod
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 likely	cop
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 likely	advmod
31	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 true	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 prove	mark
33	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 likely	xcomp
34	erroneous	erroneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 prove	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 go	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 go	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 go	nsubj
38	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 go	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 go	advmod
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 true	parataxis
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 far	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 go	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present	Tales = tale				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Tales = tale			far, true property	tree rules
3	convey	present	Tales = tale	the notion	a stranger of the manners and customs of Russian villagers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Topic to stranger=Recipient
4	not is	present	the notion			likely property	tree rules
5	prove	to-infinitive	the notion not said here			erroneous property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	not go	present · do-support	Tales = tale			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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