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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

expldetadvmodamodnsubjcasedetamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctmarkadvclcaseoblcaseamodnmodpunctmarkaux:passmarkaux:passconjcasedetoblpunctadvmodnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjpunctrootTherePRONisVERBaDETmoreADVmarkedVERBindividualityNOUNinADPtheDETRussianADJtalesNOUNofADPthisDETkindNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJcomparedVERBwithADPthosePRONofADPWesternADJEuropePROPN,PUNCTthanSCONJisAUXtoPARTbeAUXtracedVERBinADPtheDETstoriesNOUN(PUNCTespeciallyADVthosePRONofADPaDEThumorousADJcastNOUN)PUNCTwhichPRONrelateVERBtoADPtheDETeventsNOUNthatPRONchequerVERBanDETordinaryADJexistenceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 individualitydet
4moremoreADVDegree=Cmp5 markedadvmod
5markedmarkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 individualityamod
6individualityindividualityNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
7ininADP_10 talescase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 talesdet
9RussianRussianADJDegree=Pos10 talesamod
10talestaleNOUNNumber=Plur6 individualitynmod
11ofofADP_13 kindcase
12thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 kinddet
13kindkindNOUNNumber=Sing10 talesnmod
14,,PUNCT_16 comparedpunct
15asasSCONJ_16 comparedmark
16comparedcompareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 isadvcl
17withwithADP_18 thosecase
18thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem16 comparedobl
19ofofADP_21 Europecase
20WesternwesternADJDegree=Pos21 Europeamod
21EuropeEuropePROPNNumber=Sing18 thosenmod
22,,PUNCT_27 tracedpunct
23thanthanSCONJ_27 tracedmark
24isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 tracedaux:pass
25totoPART_27 tracedmark
26bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf27 tracedaux:pass
27tracedtraceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass16 comparedconj
28ininADP_30 storiescase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 storiesdet
30storiesstoryNOUNNumber=Plur27 tracedobl
31((PUNCT_33 thosepunct
32especiallyespeciallyADV_33 thoseadvmod
33thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem30 storiesnmod
34ofofADP_37 castcase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 castdet
36humoroushumorousADJDegree=Pos37 castamod
37castcastNOUNNumber=Sing33 thosenmod
38))PUNCT_33 thosepunct
39whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel40 relatensubj
40relaterelateVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin33 thoseacl:relcl
41totoADP_43 eventscase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 eventsdet
43eventseventNOUNNumber=Plur40 relateobl
44thatthatPRONPronType=Rel45 chequernsubj
45chequerchequerVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin43 eventsacl:relcl
46anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art48 existencedet
47ordinaryordinaryADJDegree=Pos48 existenceamod
48existenceexistenceNOUNNumber=Sing45 chequerobj
49..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresenta marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kindtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2markparticiplevn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3compareparticiplea marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind not said herewith thosevn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient
4tracepresent · passivea marked individuality in the Russian tales of this kind not said herethe stories thosevn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in story=Destination
5relatepresentto the eventsvn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to event=Co-Theme
6chequerpresentthe eventsa ordinary existencetree rules
7tellthis kindnom 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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