Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 4

The stories of this class are so numerous, that the task of selection has been by no means easy.

Who acts: stories, task · What happens: be, task · To what, where: selection

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 (stories, task), 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	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 numerous	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 class	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 class	det
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stories	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 numerous	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 numerous	advmod
8	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 means	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 task	det
12	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 means	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 selection	case
14	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 task	nmod
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 means	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 means	cop
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 no	case
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 means	obl
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 numerous	parataxis
20	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 numerous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the stories of this class		numerous property	tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	the task of selection		by no; easy, mean property	tree rules
3	task			selection		nom task «act 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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