Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 6
There is a more marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind, as compared with those of Western Europe, than is to be traced in the stories (especially those of a humorous cast) which relate to the events that chequer an ordinary existence.
Who acts: marked individuality, events, kind · What happens: be, mark, compare, trace, relate, chequer · To what, where: stories, ordinary existence · 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 (marked individuality, events, kind), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 individuality | det |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 marked | advmod |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 individuality | amod |
| 6 | individuality | individuality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tales | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tales | det |
| 9 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tales | amod |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 individuality | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kind | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 kind | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 compared | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 compared | mark |
| 16 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 compared | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Europe | case |
| 20 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Europe | amod |
| 21 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 those | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 traced | punct |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 27 traced | mark |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 traced | aux:pass |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 traced | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 traced | aux:pass |
| 27 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 compared | conj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 stories | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stories | det |
| 30 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 traced | obl |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 those | punct |
| 32 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 33 those | advmod |
| 33 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 stories | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 cast | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 cast | det |
| 36 | humorous | humorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 cast | amod |
| 37 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 those | nmod |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 those | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 relate | nsubj |
| 40 | relate | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 those | acl:relcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 events | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 events | det |
| 43 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 relate | obl |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 chequer | nsubj |
| 45 | chequer | chequer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 events | acl:relcl |
| 46 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 existence | det |
| 47 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 existence | amod |
| 48 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 chequer | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mark | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | compare | participle | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind not said here | with those | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | trace | present · passive | a marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind not said here | the stories those | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in story=Destination | ||||
| 5 | relate | present | to the events | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to event=Co-Theme | |||||
| 6 | chequer | present | the events | a ordinary existence | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | tell | this kind | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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