Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 121

Before passing on to another subject, it may be advisable to quote one of the stories in which the value of a good and wise wife is fully acknowledged.

Who acts: ing · What happens: pass on, be, quote, acknowledge, value · To what, where: subject, one, value, stories, good wife

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 (ing), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 passing	mark
2	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 advisable	advcl
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 passing	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 subject	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 subject	det
6	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 passing	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 advisable	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 advisable	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 advisable	cop
11	advisable	advisable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 quote	mark
13	quote	quote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 advisable	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 quote	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stories	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stories	det
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 acknowledged	obl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 value	det
21	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 acknowledged	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 wife	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wife	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wife	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wise	cc
26	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 good	conj
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 value	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 acknowledged	aux:pass
29	fully	fully	ADV	_	30 acknowledged	advmod
30	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 stories	acl:relcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 advisable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass on	gerund	ing not said here		another subject		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to subject=Destination
2	is	may	ing			advisable property	tree rules
3	quote speech: other	to-infinitive	ing not said here	one of the stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
4	acknowledge	present · passive		the value of a good wife	the stories	fully property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	value			a good wife			nom value «cognition 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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