Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 220

There are frequent allusions in the Skazkas to these gloomy subjects, with reference to which we will quote two stories, the one pathetic, the other (unintentionally) grotesque.

Who acts: frequent allusions, we · What happens: be, quote · To what, where: Skazkas, two stories, reference

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 (frequent allusions, we), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 allusions	amod
4	allusions	allusion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Skazkas	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Skazkas	det
7	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 are	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 subjects	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 subjects	det
10	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 subjects	amod
11	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reference	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 reference	case
14	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 subjects	appos
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 quote	obl
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 quote	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 quote	aux
19	quote	quote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reference	acl:relcl
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 stories	nummod
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 quote	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pathetic	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pathetic	det
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 pathetic	nummod
25	pathetic	pathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 stories	acl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 other	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pathetic	conj
29	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 unintentionally	punct
30	unintentionally	unintentionally	ADV	_	32 grotesque	advmod
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 unintentionally	punct
32	grotesque	grotesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 pathetic	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	frequent allusions			the Skazkas; there		to this gloomy subjects	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skazkas=Location
2	quote speech: other	future	we	two stories	reference				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to which=Recipient

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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