Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 114

I gladly avail myself of this opportunity of gratefully acknowledging my obligations to Dr. Benfey's invaluable work.

Who acts: I, opportunity, my, Benfey · What happens: avail, acknowledge, obligate, work · To what, where: myself, obligations, invaluable work

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, opportunity, my, Benfey), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 avail	nsubj
2	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	3 avail	advmod
3	avail	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 avail	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 opportunity	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 opportunity	det
7	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 avail	obl
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 acknowledging	mark
9	gratefully	gratefully	ADV	_	10 acknowledging	advmod
10	acknowledging	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 opportunity	acl
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 obligations	nmod:poss
12	obligations	obligation	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 acknowledging	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 work	case
14	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Benfey	nmod:desc
15	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 work	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Benfey	case
17	invaluable	invaluable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 work	amod
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acknowledging	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 avail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	avail	present	I	myself		of this opportunity; gladly property	tree rules
2	acknowledge	gerund	this opportunity not said here	my obligations	Benfey Dr.'s invaluable work	gratefully property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent obligation=Topic to work=Recipient
3	obligate		my				nom obligation «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	work		Benfey Dr.				nom work «act intransitive»: 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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