Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 3

The rest of the story is not remarkable for its fidelity to modern life, but it will serve as a good illustration of the class to which it belongs--that of stories about evil spirits, traceable, for the most part, to Eastern sources.

Who acts: rest · What happens: not be, serve, belong, illustrate · To what, where: class

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 (rest), 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 rest	det
2	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remarkable	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 story	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rest	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 remarkable	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 remarkable	advmod
8	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 fidelity	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fidelity	nmod:poss
11	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remarkable	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fidelity	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 serve	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 serve	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 serve	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 serve	aux
19	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 remarkable	parataxis
20	as	as	ADP	_	23 illustration	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 illustration	det
22	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 illustration	amod
23	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 serve	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 class	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 class	det
26	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 illustration	nmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 belongs	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 belongs	nsubj
30	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 class	acl:relcl
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 that	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 illustration	appos
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 stories	case
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 that	nmod
35	about	about	ADP	_	37 spirits	case
36	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 spirits	amod
37	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 stories	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 traceable	punct
39	traceable	traceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 spirits	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 part	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 part	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 part	det
43	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 part	amod
44	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 traceable	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sources	punct
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 sources	case
47	Eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sources	amod
48	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 part	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remarkable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the rest of the story		for rest's fidelity to modern life; remarkable property	tree rules
2	serve	future	rest		as a good illustration of the class	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as illustration=Attribute
3	belong	present	rest		to the class	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
4	illustrate			the class		nom illustration «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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