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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 26

On the forms and natures of the less conspicuous characters to be found in either class we will not at present dwell.

What happens: find, form · To what, where: class, conspicuous characters

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: 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

casedetoblccconjcasedetadvmodamodnmodmarkaux:passaclcasecc:preconjoblnsubjauxadvmodcaseamodpunctrootOnADPtheDETformsNOUNandCCONJnaturesNOUNofADPtheDETlessADVconspicuousADJcharactersNOUNtoPARTbeAUXfoundVERBinADPeitherCCONJclassNOUNwePRONwillAUXnotPARTatADPpresentADJdwellNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_3 formscase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 formsdet
3formsformNOUNNumber=Plur22 dwellobl
4andandCCONJ_5 naturescc
5naturesnatureNOUNNumber=Plur3 formsconj
6ofofADP_10 characterscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 charactersdet
8lesslessADVDegree=Cmp9 conspicuousadvmod
9conspicuousconspicuousADJDegree=Pos10 charactersamod
10characterscharacterNOUNNumber=Plur3 formsnmod
11totoPART_13 foundmark
12bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf13 foundaux:pass
13foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass10 charactersacl
14ininADP_16 classcase
15eithereitherCCONJ_16 classcc:preconj
16classclassNOUNNumber=Sing13 foundobl
17wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs22 dwellnsubj
18willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin22 dwellaux
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg22 dwelladvmod
20atatADP_22 dwellcase
21presentpresentADJDegree=Pos22 dwellamod
22dwelldwellNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
23..PUNCT_22 dwellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1findto-infinitive · passiveclassvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
2formthe conspicuous charactersnom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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