Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 12

The stories which have thus been preserved have no small interest of their own, but they cannot be considered as fair illustrations of Russian folk-lore, for their compilers in many cases took them from any sources to which they had access, whether eastern or western, merely adapting what they borrowed to Russian forms of thought and speech.

Who acts: stories, compilers · What happens: preserve, have, not consider, take, adapt, borrow · To what, where: stories, small interest, cases, sources, access, Russian folk lore

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, compilers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stories	det
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 preserved	nsubj:pass
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 preserved	aux
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 preserved	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 preserved	aux:pass
7	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stories	acl:relcl
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 interest	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 interest	amod
11	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 own	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 interest	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 considered	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 considered	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 considered	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 considered	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 considered	advmod
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 considered	aux:pass
21	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	parataxis
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 illustrations	case
23	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 illustrations	amod
24	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 considered	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 lore	case
26	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lore	amod
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lore	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 folk	punct
29	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 illustrations	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 compilers	punct
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 compilers	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 compilers	nmod:poss
33	compilers	compiler	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 cases	case
35	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cases	amod
36	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	nsubj
37	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 considered	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 took	obj
39	from	from	ADP	_	41 sources	case
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	41 sources	det
41	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 took	obl
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 which	case
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 had	obl
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 sources	acl:relcl
46	access	access	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 adapting	punct
48	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	54 adapting	mark
49	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 adapting	amod
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 western	cc
51	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 eastern	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 adapting	punct
53	merely	merely	ADV	_	54 adapting	advmod
54	adapting	adapt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 took	advcl
55	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 adapting	obj
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 borrowed	nsubj
57	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 what	acl:relcl
58	to	to	ADP	_	60 forms	case
59	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 forms	amod
60	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 borrowed	obl
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 thought	case
62	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 forms	nmod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 speech	cc
64	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 thought	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	preserve	present · perfect · passive		the stories		thus property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	have	present	the stories	no small interest of stories's own			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
3	not consider	can · passive		stories = story		as fair illustrations of Russian folk lore	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute
4	take	past	stories's compilers	cases = case	any sources		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent they=Theme from source=Initial_Location
5	have	past	compilers = compiler	access		to any sources	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Patient
6	adapt	gerund	stories's compilers not said here			merely property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
7	borrow	past	compilers = compiler			to Russian forms of thought and speech	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	illustrate			Russian folk lore			nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	form			thought and speech			nom form «communication 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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