Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 38

There is very little information to be gleaned from them, for instance, with regard to the religious views of the people, none with respect to the relations which, during the times of serfdom, existed between the lord and the thrall.

Who acts: little information · What happens: be, glean, exist, view · To what, where: times, people

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 (little information), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 information	amod
5	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 gleaned	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 gleaned	aux:pass
8	gleaned	glean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 information	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gleaned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 instance	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 instance	case
13	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 information	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 regard	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 regard	case
16	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 information	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 views	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 views	det
19	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 views	amod
20	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 regard	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 views	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 none	punct
25	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 information	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 respect	case
27	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 none	nmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 relations	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 relations	det
30	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 respect	nmod
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 times	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 which	punct
33	during	during	ADP	_	35 times	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 times	det
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 relations	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 serfdom	case
37	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 times	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 existed	punct
39	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 times	acl
40	between	between	ADP	_	42 lord	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 lord	det
42	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 existed	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 thrall	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 thrall	det
45	thrall	thrall	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 lord	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	little information and instance and regard to the religious views of the people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	glean	to-infinitive · passive	little information and instance and regard to the religious views of the people not said here			from Tales = tale	vn learn-14-2 «NP V PP.source»: from they=Source
3	exist	participle		the times of serfdom not said here		between the lord and the thrall	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between lord=Location
4	view			the people			nom view «cognition 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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