Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 6

He who has read the folk-tales of one country only, is apt to attribute to its inhabitants a comic originality to which they can lay no claim.

Who acts: assertion, tales, one country · What happens: read, be, attribute, lay, tell · To what, where: folk tales, claim · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (assertion, tales, one country), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 read	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
4	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tales	det
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 country	nummod
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	nmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	11 country	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 apt	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 apt	cop
15	apt	apt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 read	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 attribute	mark
17	attribute	attribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 apt	csubj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 inhabitants	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 inhabitants	nmod:poss
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 attribute	obl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 originality	det
22	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 originality	amod
23	originality	originality	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 inhabitants	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lay	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 lay	aux
28	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 originality	parataxis
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 claim	det
30	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	present · perfect	assertion	the folk tales of one country		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Topic
2	is	present	assertion not said here		apt property	tree rules
3	attribute	to-infinitive			to country's inhabitants a comic originality	tree rules
4	lay	can	tales = tale	no claim	to a comic originality	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Result
5	tell		one country			nom tale «communication 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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