Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 40

Turning from one to another of these accidental illustrations, we by degrees create a mental picture which is not without its peculiar charm.

Who acts: we, mental picture · What happens: turn, create, not be · To what, where: mental picture

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 (we, mental picture), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 create	advcl
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 one	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Turning	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 another	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 illustrations	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 illustrations	det
8	accidental	accidental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 illustrations	amod
9	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 another	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Turning	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 create	nsubj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 degrees	case
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 create	obl
14	create	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 picture	det
16	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 picture	amod
17	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 create	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 charm	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 charm	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 charm	advmod
21	without	without	ADP	_	24 charm	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 charm	nmod:poss
23	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 charm	compound
24	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 picture	parataxis
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 create	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	we not said here		from one to another	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from one=Trajectory
2	create	present	we	a mental picture	by degrees	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Result
3	not is	present	a mental picture		without picture's peculiar charm	tree rules

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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