Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 3

The present chapter is devoted to specimens of those skazkas which most Russian critics assert to be distinctly mythical.

Who acts: most Russian critics · What happens: devote, assert, be · To what, where: present chapter, specimens, skazkas

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 (most Russian critics), 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 chapter	det
2	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chapter	amod
3	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 devoted	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 devoted	aux:pass
5	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 specimens	case
7	specimens	specimen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 devoted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 skazkas	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 skazkas	det
10	skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 specimens	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 assert	obj
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 critics	amod
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 critics	amod
14	critics	critic	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 assert	nsubj
15	assert	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 skazkas	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	19 mythical	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 mythical	cop
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	19 mythical	advmod
19	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 assert	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	devote	present · passive		the present chapter	to specimens of that skazkas goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to specimen=Goal
2	assert	present	most Russian critics	that skazkas		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive	most Russian critics not said here		distinctly, mythical property	tree rules

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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