Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 95

Suffice to say that there can be little doubt as to its being the same as that in which Bluebeard kept the corpses of his dead wives.

Who acts: you, little doubt, Bluebeard · What happens: suffice, say, be, keep · To what, where: corpses · 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 (you, little doubt, Bluebeard), 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	Suffice	suffice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 say	mark
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suffice	xcomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 be	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 be	expl
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doubt	amod
9	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 be	nsubj
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 same	mark
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 as	fixed
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 same	nmod:poss
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 same	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 same	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 doubt	acl
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 same	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 kept	obl
20	Bluebeard	Bluebeard	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 that	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 corpses	det
23	corpses	corpse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 kept	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 wives	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wives	nmod:poss
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wives	amod
27	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 corpses	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Suffice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suffice	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	can	can	little doubt		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	gerund	little doubt not said here			as little doubt; same property	tree rules
5	keep	past	Bluebeard	the corpses of Bluebeard's dead wives			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent corpse=Theme in which=Location

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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