Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 39

It has been thought strange that such stress should be laid on the employment of certain toilet-articles, to the use of which the heroes of folk-tales do not appear to have been greatly addicted.

Who acts: heroes · What happens: think, lay, not appear, addict, employ · To what, where: influence, such stress, employment, certain toilet articles

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroes), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	aux:pass
4	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 laid	mark
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stress	amod
8	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	nsubj:pass
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 laid	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 laid	aux:pass
11	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 employment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 employment	det
14	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 articles	case
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 articles	amod
17	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 articles	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 toilet	punct
19	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 employment	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 use	punct
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 use	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 use	det
23	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 appear	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 heroes	det
27	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 appear	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 tales	case
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tales	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 folk	punct
31	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 heroes	nmod
32	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 appear	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 appear	advmod
34	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	39 addicted	mark
36	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 addicted	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 addicted	aux:pass
38	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	39 addicted	advmod
39	addicted	addict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 appear	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · perfect · passive		influence		strange property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lay	should · passive		such stress	the employment of certain toilet articles	to the use	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on employment=Destination
3	not appear	present · do-support	the heroes of folk tales			of the use	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	addict	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	the heroes of folk tales not said here			greatly property	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»
5	employ			certain toilet articles			nom employment «state transitive»: of=patient

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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