Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 1, sentence 61

The allusions to it are for the most part indirect, as when a princess is said to be more beautiful than anybody ever was, except in a skazka; but sometimes it obtains direct notice.

Who acts: lamp, allusions · What happens: be, indirect, say, obtain · To what, where: princess, direct notice · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lamp, allusions), 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 allusions	det
2	allusions	allusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 indirect	nsubj
3	to	to	ADP	_	9 part	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 part	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 part	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 part	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 part	det
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 part	amod
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 allusions	nmod
10	indirect	indirect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 said	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	aux:pass
17	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 indirect	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	21 beautiful	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 beautiful	cop
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 anybody	case
23	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	21 beautiful	obl
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 skazka	advmod
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 skazka	cop
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 skazka	punct
27	except	except	ADP	_	30 skazka	case
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 skazka	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 skazka	det
30	skazka	skazka	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	advcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 obtains	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 obtains	cc
33	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 obtains	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 obtains	nsubj
35	obtains	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 indirect	conj
36	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 notice	amod
37	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 obtains	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 indirect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lamp			to the most part	tree rules
2	indirect	present	the allusions				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		a princess			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	is	to-infinitive				than anybody; beautiful property	tree rules
5	is	past			ever	except a skazka	tree rules
6	obtain	present	lamp	direct notice		sometimes property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset notice=Theme

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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