Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 7

The actors in the _comediettas_ of European peasant-life vary but little, either in title or in character, wherever the scene may be laid; just as in the European beast-epos the Fox, the Wolf, and the Bear play parts which change but slightly with the regions they inhabit.

Who acts: actors, play parts · What happens: vary, lay, change, inhabit · To what, where: European beast epos, scene, regions

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 (actors, play parts), 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 actors	det
2	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vary	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 comediettas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 comediettas	det
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 comediettas	punct
6	comediettas	comedietta	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 actors	nmod
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 vary	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
9	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 life	amod
10	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 life	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 peasant	punct
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vary	obl
13	vary	vary	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 little	cc
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vary	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 title	punct
17	either	either	CCONJ	_	19 title	cc:preconj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 title	case
19	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vary	parataxis
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 character	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 character	case
22	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 title	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 laid	punct
24	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	29 laid	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 scene	det
26	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 laid	nsubj:pass
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 laid	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 laid	aux:pass
29	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 title	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 epos	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	38 epos	advmod
32	as	as	ADV	_	38 epos	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	38 epos	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 epos	det
35	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 epos	amod
36	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 epos	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 beast	punct
38	epos	epos	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vary	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Fox	det
40	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 epos	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Wolf	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Wolf	det
43	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Fox	appos
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 parts	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 parts	cc
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 parts	det
47	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 play	compound
48	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 parts	compound
49	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 epos	appos
50	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 change	nsubj
51	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 parts	acl:relcl
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 slightly	cc
53	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	51 change	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 regions	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 regions	det
56	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 change	obl
57	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 inhabit	nsubj
58	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 regions	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 vary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	vary	present	the actors in the comediettas		the European beast epos and the Fox	of European peasant life	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	lay	may · passive		the scene		wherever property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	change	present	the play parts			with the regions	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	inhabit	present	actors = actor	the regions not said here			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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