Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 149

A somewhat less heathenish story with regard to money is the following, which may be taken as a specimen of the Skazkas which bear the impress of the genuine reverence which the peasants feel for their religion, whatever may be the feelings they entertain towards its ministers.

Who acts: heathenish story, Skazkas, peasants · What happens: follow, take, bear, feel, be, entertain · To what, where: impress, genuine reverence, feelings

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heathenish story, Skazkas, peasants), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
2	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	3 less	advmod
3	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 heathenish	advmod
4	heathenish	heathenish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 following	nsubj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 regard	case
7	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 money	case
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 regard	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 following	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 following	det
12	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 taken	nsubj:pass
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 following	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 specimen	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 specimen	det
20	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 taken	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Skazkas	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Skazkas	det
23	Skazkas	Skazka	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 specimen	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 bear	nsubj
25	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 Skazkas	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 impress	det
27	impress	impress	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bear	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 reverence	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 reverence	det
30	genuine	genuine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reverence	amod
31	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 impress	nmod
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 feel	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 peasants	det
34	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 feel	nsubj
35	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 reverence	acl:relcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 religion	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 religion	nmod:poss
38	religion	religion	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 feel	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 feelings	punct
40	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 feelings	det:predet
41	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 feelings	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 feelings	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 feelings	det
44	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 religion	conj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 entertain	nsubj
46	entertain	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 feelings	acl:relcl
47	towards	towards	ADP	_	49 ministers	case
48	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 ministers	nmod:poss
49	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 entertain	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 following	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	present · progressive	a heathenish story with regard to money			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	may · passive			as a specimen of the Skazkas	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as specimen=Attribute
3	bear	present	the Skazkas	the impress of the genuine reverence		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impress=Patient
4	feel	present	the peasants	the genuine reverence	for peasants's religion and whatever feelings	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent which=Location for religion=Theme
5	is a	may	the peasants not said here	whatever feelings		tree rules
6	entertain	present	peasants = peasant	whatever feelings not said here	towards story's ministers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feeling=Experiencer
7	impress			the genuine reverence		nom impress «act 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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