Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 79
The following legend is not altogether new in "motive," but a certain freshness is lent to it by its simple style, its unstrained humor, and its genial tone.
Who acts: following legend, simple style, legend · What happens: follow, not be, lend, unstrain, humor, intonate · To what, where: motive, certain freshness, legend
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 (following legend, simple style, legend), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 legend | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 legend | amod |
| 3 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 new | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 new | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 new | advmod |
| 6 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 7 new | advmod |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 motive | case |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 motive | punct |
| 10 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 new | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 new | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 new | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lent | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 freshness | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 freshness | amod |
| 16 | freshness | freshness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 lent | aux:pass |
| 18 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 new | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lent | obl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 style | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 style | nmod:poss |
| 23 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 style | amod |
| 24 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lent | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 humor | punct |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 humor | nmod:poss |
| 27 | unstrained | unstrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 humor | amod |
| 28 | humor | humor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 style | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 tone | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tone | cc |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 tone | nmod:poss |
| 32 | genial | genial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tone | amod |
| 33 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 new | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is | present | the following legend | motive | legend's genial tone obl; altogether, new property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lend | present · passive | legend's simple style | a certain freshness | legend | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | unstrain | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | humor | legend | nom humor «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | intonate | legend | nom tone «communication 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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