Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 135

The incident is one which occupies a prominent place in the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia, and its result is almost always the same.

Who acts: incident, result · What happens: be, occupy, result · To what, where: one, prominent place, stories

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident, result), 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 incident	det
2	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 occupies	nsubj
6	occupies	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	prominent	prominent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occupies	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 stories	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stories	det
12	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 place	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 current	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 current	det
15	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 current	compound
16	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stories	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 parts	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 parts	det
19	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 current	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Europe	case
21	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 parts	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Asia	cc
23	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Europe	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 same	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 same	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 result	nmod:poss
27	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 same	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 same	cop
29	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 always	advmod
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 same	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 same	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 occupies	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the incident	one			tree rules
2	occupy	present		a prominent place	the stories of this class current in all parts of Europe and Asia		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer
3	is	present	incident's result			always, same property	tree rules
4	result		incident				nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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