Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 17

The second story will serve as an illustration of one of the Russian customs with respect to the dead, and also of the ideas about witchcraft, still prevalent in Russia.

Who acts: second story · What happens: serve

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 (second story), 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 story	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serve	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 serve	aux
5	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 illustration	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 illustration	det
8	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serve	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 illustration	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 customs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 customs	det
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 customs	amod
14	customs	custom	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 respect	case
16	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 customs	nmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 dead	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dead	det
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 respect	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ideas	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ideas	cc
22	also	also	ADV	_	25 ideas	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 ideas	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ideas	det
25	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 illustration	conj
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 witchcraft	case
27	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ideas	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 prevalent	punct
29	still	still	ADV	_	30 prevalent	advmod
30	prevalent	prevalent	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 witchcraft	appos
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 Russia	case
32	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 prevalent	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 serve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	serve	future	the second story					as a illustration of one of the Russian customs with respect to the dead and the ideas about witchcraft	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as illustration=Attribute

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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