Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 2
But it is not easy to find stories which can be quoted at full length as illustrations of that humor.
What happens: not be, find, quote, illustrate · To what, where: stories, full length, humor
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 easy | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | csubj |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 quoted | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 quoted | aux:pass |
| 12 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stories | acl:relcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 length | amod |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 quoted | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 illustrations | case |
| 17 | illustrations | illustration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 length | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 humor | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 humor | det |
| 20 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 illustrations | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | stories | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | |||||
| 3 | quote speech: other | can · passive | stories | full length as illustrations of that humor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 4 | illustrate | that humor | nom illustration «communication 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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