Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 42

Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor.

Who acts: common use · What happens: speak, take, be, use, accept · To what, where: brush, proof, term brushwood, metaphor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (common use), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 speaking	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	metaphorically	metaphorically	ADV	_	4 speaking	advmod
4	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 taken	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speaking	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 brush	det
7	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	nsubj:pass
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 taken	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 taken	aux:pass
10	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	miniature	miniature	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 proof	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 use	det
17	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 use	amod
18	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 proof	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 brushwood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 brushwood	det
21	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brushwood	compound
22	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 use	nmod
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 proof	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 proof	det
25	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taken	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 acceptance	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 acceptance	det
28	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 acceptance	amod
29	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 proof	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 metaphor	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 metaphor	det
32	metaphor	metaphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 acceptance	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund			now	metaphorically property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	may · passive		a brush		as a miniature wood	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as wood=Attribute
3	is a	present	the common use of the term brushwood	a proof		of the general acceptance of the metaphor	tree rules
4	use			the term brushwood			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient
5	accept			the metaphor			nom acceptance «cognition 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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