Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 17

A German version of seventeen of these "chap-book tales," to which was prefixed an introduction by Jacob Grimm, was published some forty years ago,[2] and has been translated into English.

Who acts: Jacob · What happens: prefix, publish, translate · To what, where: introduction, German version, English

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 (Jacob), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 version	det
2	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 version	amod
3	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 published	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 seventeen	case
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 version	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	12 tales	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 tales	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tales	punct
9	chap	chap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 book	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 chap	punct
11	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tales	compound
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seventeen	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tales	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 tales	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 prefixed	obl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 prefixed	aux:pass
18	prefixed	prefix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tales	acl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 introduction	det
20	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 prefixed	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 Jacob	case
22	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 prefixed	obl:agent
23	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Jacob	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 version	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 published	aux:pass
26	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 years	det
28	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ago	obl:unmarked
30	ago	ago	ADV	_	26 published	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 translated	punct
32	[	[	PUNCT	_	33 2	punct
33	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 translated	discourse
34	]	]	PUNCT	_	33 2	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 translated	cc
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 translated	aux
37	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 translated	aux:pass
38	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 published	conj
39	into	into	ADP	_	40 English	case
40	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 translated	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 published	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	prefix	past · passive	Jacob	a introduction	to this book tales	tree rules
2	publish	past · passive		a German version of seventeen of this book tales	ago property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	translate	present · perfect · passive			into English result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: into english=Result

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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