Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 34

But instead of giving mere extracts from any more of the numerous stories to which the fruitful subject of woman's caprice has given rise, we will quote a couple of such tales at length.

Who acts: we · What happens: give, quote · To what, where: mere extracts, fruitful subject, couple, length

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 (we), 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	_	4 giving	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 giving	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 extracts	amod
6	extracts	extract	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	13 stories	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 stories	det
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 stories	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 stories	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stories	det
12	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 given	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 subject	det
17	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 subject	amod
18	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 caprice	case
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 caprice	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 woman	case
22	caprice	caprice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 subject	nmod
23	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 given	aux
24	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stories	parataxis
25	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 given	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 quote	punct
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 quote	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 quote	aux
29	quote	quote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 given	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 couple	det
31	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 quote	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 tales	case
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 tales	amod
34	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 couple	nmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 length	case
36	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 quote	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 giving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		mere extracts			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extract=Theme
2	give	present · perfect · passive		the fruitful subject of woman's caprice		to any more numerous stories	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient rise=Theme
3	quote speech: other	future	we	a couple of such tales	length		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Topic

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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