Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 43

We see the land around a Slough of Despond in the spring, an unbroken sea of green in the early summer, a blaze of gold at harvest-time, in the winter one vast sheet of all but untrodden snow.

Who acts: We, gold · What happens: see, blaze · To what, where: land, Slough

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, gold), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 Slough	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Slough	det
7	Slough	Slough	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 land	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Despond	case
9	Despond	Despond	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Slough	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 spring	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sea	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sea	det
15	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sea	amod
16	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 green	case
18	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sea	appos
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 summer	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 summer	det
21	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 summer	amod
22	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 green	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 blaze	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 blaze	det
25	blaze	blaze	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 gold	case
27	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blaze	nmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 time	case
29	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 harvest	punct
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 blaze	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 winter	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 winter	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 winter	det
35	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 sheet	nummod
37	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sheet	amod
38	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 all	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 sheet	nmod
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 snow	cc
42	untrodden	untrodden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 snow	amod
43	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sheet	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	We	the land and a unbroken sea and a blaze of gold at harvest time		a Slough of Despond	in the spring; winter		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer land=Stimulus
2	blaze		gold				at harvest time		nom blaze «process intransitive»: of=agent at=obl

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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