Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 55

Such are, for instance, the leading incidents in the following skazka, many features of which closely resemble those of various well-known West-European folk-tales.

Who acts: leading incidents, many features · What happens: be, lead, follow, resemble, know · To what, where: skazka, many features

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leading incidents, many features), 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	Such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 instance	amod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 instance	cop
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 instance	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 instance	case
5	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 incidents	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 incidents	det
8	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 incidents	amod
9	incidents	incident	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 instance	appos
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 following	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 following	det
12	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 incidents	acl
13	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	12 following	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 features	punct
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 features	amod
16	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 instance	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 resemble	nsubj
19	closely	closely	ADV	_	20 resemble	advmod
20	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 features	acl:relcl
21	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 resemble	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	32 tales	case
23	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tales	amod
24	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 known	advmod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 well	punct
26	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 tales	amod
27	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 tales	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 West	punct
29	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 tales	amod
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tales	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 folk	punct
32	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 those	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 instance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			for Such instance	tree rules
2	lead	gerund				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	follow	gerund	the leading incidents not said here	skazka		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skazka=Theme
4	resemble	infinitive	many features	many features	closely property	tree rules
5	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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