Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 136
But the means by which that result is brought about differ considerably in different lands.
Who acts: the · What happens: mean, bring about, differ · To what, where: result, different lands · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (the), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 means | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | obl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 result | det |
| 7 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 means | ccomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 differ | advmod |
| 11 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | advcl |
| 12 | considerably | considerably | ADV | _ | 11 differ | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 lands | case |
| 14 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lands | amod |
| 15 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 differ | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring about | present · passive | that result | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | differ | present | different lands | about, considerably property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=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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