Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 59

The word skazka, or folk-tale, does not very often occur in the Russian popular tales themselves.

Who acts: word · What happens: do, not occur · To what, where: Russian popular tales

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 (word), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
3	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	2 word	appos
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tale	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 tale	cc
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tale	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 word	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 word	punct
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 occur	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 often	advmod
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 occur	advmod
14	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 does	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 tales	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tales	det
17	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
18	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tales	amod
19	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 occur	obl
20	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 tales	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 does	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the word or folk tale						tree rules
2	not occur	present	the word or folk tale not said here			the Russian popular tales words		often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in tale=Location

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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