Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 56
From among the stories which contain the most graphic descriptions of Russian village life, or which may be regarded as specially illustrative of Russian sentiment and humor those which the present chapter contains have been selected.
Who acts: present chapter, Russian sentiment · What happens: contain, regard, select, describe · To what, where: graphic descriptions, stories, Russian sentiment, Russian village life
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 (present chapter, Russian sentiment), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | among | among | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contain | obl |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 contain | nsubj |
| 6 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 descriptions | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 graphic | advmod |
| 9 | graphic | graphic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 descriptions | amod |
| 10 | descriptions | description | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contain | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 12 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 life | amod |
| 13 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | compound |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 descriptions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 regarded | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 regarded | cc |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 regarded | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 regarded | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 regarded | aux:pass |
| 20 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 contain | conj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 illustrative | mark |
| 22 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 23 illustrative | advmod |
| 23 | illustrative | illustrative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 regarded | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sentiment | case |
| 25 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sentiment | amod |
| 26 | sentiment | sentiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 illustrative | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 humor | cc |
| 28 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sentiment | conj |
| 29 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 contains | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 chapter | det |
| 32 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 chapter | amod |
| 33 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 contains | nsubj |
| 34 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 those | acl:relcl |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 selected | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 selected | aux:pass |
| 37 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 sentiment | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 contain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | present | the graphic descriptions of Russian village life | the stories | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot description=Theme | ||||
| 2 | regard | may · passive | illustrative property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | contain | present | the present chapter | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||||
| 4 | select | present · perfect · passive | Russian sentiment and humor not said here | Russian sentiment and humor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | describe | Russian village life | nom description «communication 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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