Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 47
[22] I do not propose to comment at any length upon the stories quoted in the present chapter.
Who acts: 22 · What happens: not propose, comment, quote · To what, where: length, stories, present chapter
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 (22), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
| 2 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 propose | nsubj |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 22 | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 propose | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 propose | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 propose | advmod |
| 7 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 comment | mark |
| 9 | comment | comment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 propose | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 length | det |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comment | obl |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 stories | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stories | det |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 comment | obl |
| 16 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stories | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 chapter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 chapter | det |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 chapter | amod |
| 20 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quoted | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not propose | present · do-support | 22 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | comment speech: other | to-infinitive | 22 not said here | any length | upon the stories | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | quote speech: other | participle | the stories not said here | the present chapter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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