Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 37

On some of the questions which are likely to be of the greatest interest to a foreigner they never touch.

Who acts: questions, Tales · What happens: be, not touch · To what, where: foreigner

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 (questions, Tales), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 some	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 questions	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 questions	det
5	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 some	nmod
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 likely	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 likely	cop
8	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 questions	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	14 interest	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 interest	cop
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 interest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 interest	det
13	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 interest	amod
14	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 likely	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 foreigner	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 foreigner	det
17	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 interest	nmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touch	nsubj
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 touch	advmod
20	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 foreigner	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 some	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the questions		likely property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	the questions not said here		of the greatest interest; to a foreigner	tree rules
3	not touch	present	Tales = tale	a foreigner not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme foreigner=Co-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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