Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 66

As a specimen of the manner in which the humor of the Russian peasant has manipulated the stories of this class, most of which probably reached him from the East, we may take the following tale of--

Who acts: most, we · What happens: manipulate, reach, take, follow, humor · To what, where: humor, manner, bedroom, East, following tale, Russian peasant

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 (most, 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 specimen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 specimen	det
3	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 manner	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manner	det
6	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 specimen	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 manipulated	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 humor	det
10	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 manipulated	nsubj:pass
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 peasant	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 peasant	det
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 peasant	amod
14	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 humor	nmod
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 manipulated	aux
16	manipulated	manipulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 manner	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stories	det
18	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 manipulated	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 class	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 class	det
21	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stories	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 specimen	punct
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 reached	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 most	nmod
26	probably	probably	ADV	_	27 reached	advmod
27	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reached	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 East	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 East	det
31	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 reached	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 reached	parataxis
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 tale	det
37	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 tale	amod
38	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	38 tale	case
40	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manipulate	present · perfect · passive		the humor of the Russian peasant	the manner		tree rules
2	reach	past	most	bedroom	the East	as a specimen of the manner; probably property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from east=Source
3	take	may	we	the following tale			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	humor			the Russian peasant			nom humor «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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