Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 76

[90] But this apology for their behavior seems to be due to the story-teller's imagination.

Who acts: apology · What happens: seem, be

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apology), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 90	punct
2	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 90	punct
4	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 seems	cc
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 apology	det
6	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seems	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 behavior	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 behavior	nmod:poss
9	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 apology	nmod
10	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 90	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	20 imagination	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 imagination	cop
13	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 imagination	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 due	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 teller	det
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teller	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 story	punct
18	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 imagination	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 teller	case
20	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seems	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 90	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	this apology for brothers's behavior						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	this apology for brothers's behavior not said here					due the story teller's imagination	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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