Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 205

[23] The tale is one of magic and enchantment, of living clouds and seven-headed snakes; but the opening is a little piece of still-life very quaintly portrayed.

Who acts: 23 tale, opening · What happens: be, portray · To what, where: one, little piece

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 (23 tale, opening), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 23	punct
2	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 tale	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 23	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 one	cop
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 magic	case
9	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 enchantment	cc
11	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 magic	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 clouds	punct
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 clouds	case
14	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 clouds	amod
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 magic	appos
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 snakes	cc
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 headed	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 seven	punct
19	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 snakes	amod
20	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 clouds	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 piece	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 piece	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 opening	det
24	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 piece	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 piece	amod
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 one	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 life	case
30	still	still	ADV	_	32 life	advmod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 still	punct
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 piece	nmod
33	very	very	ADV	_	34 quaintly	advmod
34	quaintly	quaintly	ADV	_	35 portrayed	advmod
35	portrayed	portray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 piece	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the 23 tale	one but a little piece	of magic and enchantment	tree rules
2	is a	present	the opening	a little piece	of life	tree rules
3	portray	participle	the opening not said here		quaintly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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