Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 122

I have chosen for that purpose one of the variants of a tale from which, in all probability, our own story of "Whittington and his Cat" has been derived.

Who acts: I, Whittington, tale · What happens: choose, derive, vary · To what, where: one, Cat

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 (I, Whittington, tale), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 chosen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chosen	aux
3	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 purpose	det
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	obl
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chosen	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 variants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 variants	det
10	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 variants	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 tale	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 probability	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 probability	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 probability	det
19	probability	probability	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chosen	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 story	punct
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 story	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 story	amod
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 probability	appos
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Whittington	case
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Whittington	punct
26	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 story	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 Cat	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Cat	nmod:poss
29	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 derived	nsubj:pass
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Cat	punct
31	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 derived	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 derived	aux:pass
33	derived	derive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 Whittington	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	present · perfect	I	one of the variants of a tale from the variants of a tale	for that purpose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary
2	derive	present · perfect · passive	Whittington not said here	Whittington's Cat		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	vary		a tale from the variants of a tale from the variants of a tale			nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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