Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 78

Many stories also exist in an artificially versified form, but their movement differs entirely from that of the naturally cadenced periods of the ordinary Skazka, or of such rhymed prose as that of "The Mizgir."

Who acts: Many stories, movement, traces · What happens: exist, versify, differ, cadence, rhyme, move · To what, where: versified form

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many stories, movement, traces), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stories	amod
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 exist	nsubj
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 exist	advmod
4	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 form	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 form	det
7	artificially	artificially	ADV	_	8 versified	advmod
8	versified	versify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 form	amod
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 exist	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 differs	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 differs	cc
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 movement	nmod:poss
13	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 differs	nsubj
14	differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exist	conj
15	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	14 differs	advmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 differs	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 periods	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 periods	det
20	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	21 cadenced	advmod
21	cadenced	cadence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 periods	amod
22	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 that	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Skazka	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Skazka	det
25	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Skazka	amod
26	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 periods	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 prose	punct
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 prose	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 prose	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prose	amod
31	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 prose	amod
32	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 differs	obl
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 that	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 prose	nmod
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 Mizgir	case
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 Mizgir	punct
37	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Mizgir	det
38	Mizgir	Mizgir	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 prose	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 exist	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 exist	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	exist	present	Many stories	a versified form		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location
2	versify	participle			artificially property	tree rules
3	differ	present	traces's movement		of such rhymed prose as that of the Mizgir; from that; entirely property	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from that=Co-Theme
4	cadence	participle			naturally property	tree rules
5	rhyme	participle				vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	move		traces = trace			nom movement «act transitive»: poss=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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