Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 11
It is strange how far a story of this kind may travel, and yet how little alteration it may undergo.
Who acts: most, story, little alteration · What happens: be, travel, undergo
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, story, little alteration), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 travel | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 kind | det |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 travel | aux |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strange | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 undergo | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 undergo | cc |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 21 undergo | advmod |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 undergo | advmod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 alteration | amod |
| 18 | alteration | alteration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 undergo | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 undergo | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 undergo | aux |
| 21 | undergo | undergo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 travel | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | most | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | travel | may | a story of this kind | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | undergo | may | little alteration | yet | tree rules |
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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