Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 125

We may take next the large class of stories about simpletons, so dear to the public in all parts of the world.

Who acts: We · What happens: take · To what, where: large class

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 take	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 class	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 class	amod
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stories	case
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 class	nmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 simpletons	case
11	simpletons	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stories	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dear	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 dear	advmod
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 public	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 public	det
17	public	public	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dear	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 parts	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 parts	det
20	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dear	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 parts	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	may	We	the large class of stories about simpletons				next property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent class=Theme

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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