Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 4

Of these works that of Afanasief is by far the most important, extending to nearly 3,000 pages, and containing 332 distinct stories--of many of which several variants are given, sometimes as many as five.

Who acts: these, Afanasief · What happens: work, be, extend, contain, give · To what, where: that, 3,000 pages, 332 distinct stories, many

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 (these, Afanasief), 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	Of	of	SCONJ	_	3 works	mark
2	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 works	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Afanasief	case
6	Afanasief	Afanasief	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 that	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 important	cop
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 important	mark
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 important	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 important	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 important	advmod
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Afanasief	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 extending	punct
14	extending	extend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 important	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 pages	case
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	17 3,000	advmod
17	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 pages	nummod
18	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 extending	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 containing	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 containing	cc
21	containing	contain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 extending	conj
22	332	332	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 stories	nummod
23	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stories	amod
24	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 containing	obj
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 given	punct
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 variants	case
27	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 variants	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 many	nmod
30	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 variants	amod
31	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 given	obl
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 given	aux:pass
33	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 important	parataxis
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 many	punct
35	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	37 many	advmod
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 many	advmod
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 given	obj
38	as	as	ADP	_	39 five	case
39	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 many	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	these	that			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent that=Material
2	is	present	Afanasief not said here			far, important property	tree rules
3	extend	gerund	Afanasief not said here		3,000 pages		vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to page=Recipient
4	contain	gerund	Afanasief not said here	332 distinct stories			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot story=Theme
5	give	present · passive		many		of several variants; as five	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: many=Theme

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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