Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 23

Of those among the number to which the Russian skazkas relate I will now proceed to give a sketch, allowing the stories, so far as is possible, to speak for themselves.

Who acts: Russian skazkas, I, sketch · What happens: relate, proceed, give, allow, be, speak · To what, where: sketch, stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Russian skazkas, I, sketch), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 those	case
2	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	15 proceed	obl
3	among	among	ADP	_	5 number	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 number	det
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 those	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 relate	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skazkas	det
9	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 skazkas	amod
10	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 relate	nsubj
11	relate	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 number	acl:relcl
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 proceed	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 proceed	aux
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 proceed	advmod
15	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proceed	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 sketch	det
19	sketch	sketch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 allowing	punct
21	allowing	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 sketch	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stories	det
23	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 allowing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 far	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 proceed	advmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 possible	mark
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 possible	cop
29	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 far	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 speak	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 speak	mark
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proceed	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 themselves	case
34	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 speak	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 proceed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	relate	present	the Russian skazkas			to the number	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme
2	proceed	future	I		now	of those; far property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	a sketch			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sketch=Theme
4	allow	gerund	a sketch not said here	the stories			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Beneficiary
5	is	present	I not said here			possible property	tree rules
6	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			for skazkas = skazka	vn talk-37.5 «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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