Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 87

[8] This book is now out of print, and copies fetch a very high price.

Who acts: 8, copies · What happens: be, fetch · To what, where: print, high price

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 (8, copies), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 8	punct
2	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 print	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 8	punct
4	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 book	det
5	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 print	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 print	cop
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 print	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 print	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 print	case
10	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fetch	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fetch	cc
13	copies	copy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fetch	nsubj
14	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 print	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 price	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 high	advmod
17	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 price	amod
18	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fetch	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 print	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	8			print	now		tree rules
2	fetch	present	copies	a high price					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=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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