Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 6

In our days the folk-tale, instead of being left to the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance, is sedulously tended and held in high honor by the ripest of scholars.

What happens: leave, tend, hold · To what, where: folk tale, careless guardianship, high honor

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 days	nmod:poss
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tale	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tale	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 folk	punct
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tended	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 left	punct
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 left	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 left	aux:pass
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 tale	acl:relcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 guardianship	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 guardianship	det
15	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 guardianship	amod
16	guardianship	guardianship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 left	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 youth	case
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guardianship	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ignorance	cc
20	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guardianship	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tale	punct
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tended	aux:pass
23	sedulously	sedulously	ADV	_	24 tended	advmod
24	tended	tend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 held	cc
26	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tended	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 honor	case
28	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 honor	amod
29	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 held	obl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 ripest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ripest	det
32	ripest	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 held	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 scholars	case
34	scholars	scholar	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ripest	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 tended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund · passive	the folk tale not said here	the careless guardianship of youth and ignorance		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: to guardianship=Initial_Location
2	tend	present · passive	the folk tale		sedulously property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hold	participle		high honor		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honor=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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