Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 2

The following skazka has been selected on account of the descriptions of a _vechernitsa_, or village _soiree_,[17] and of a rustic courtship, which its opening scene contains.

Who acts: opening scene · What happens: follow, select, contain, account, describe · To what, where: skazka, account, rustic courtship, descriptions, vechernitsa

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opening scene), 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	3 skazka	det
2	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 skazka	case
3	skazka	skazka	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selected	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 selected	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 selected	aux:pass
6	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 account	case
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selected	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 descriptions	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 descriptions	det
11	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 account	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 vechernitsa	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 vechernitsa	det
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	15 vechernitsa	punct
15	vechernitsa	vechernitsa	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 descriptions	nmod
16	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 selected	punct
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 village	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 village	cc
19	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 selected	obl
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 soiree	punct
21	soiree	soiree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 village	appos
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 soiree	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 17	punct
24	[	[	PUNCT	_	25 17	punct
25	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 village	appos
26	]	]	PUNCT	_	25 17	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 courtship	cc
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 courtship	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 courtship	det
30	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 courtship	amod
31	courtship	courtship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 village	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 contains	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 contains	obj
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 scene	nmod:poss
35	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 scene	compound
36	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 contains	nsubj
37	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 courtship	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 selected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	select	present · perfect · passive		the skazka	account of the descriptions of a vechernitsa	village and a rustic courtship obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	contain	present	courtship's opening scene	a rustic courtship			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
4	account			the descriptions of a vechernitsa			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
5	describe			a vechernitsa			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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