Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 180

A _spasibo_[241] is no small thing.

Who acts: _ spasibo · What happens: be · To what, where: small thing

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_ spasibo), 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 spasibo	det
2	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spasibo	amod
3	spasibo	spasibo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thing	nsubj
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 241	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 241	punct
6	241	241	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 spasibo	appos
7	]	]	PUNCT	_	6 241	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 thing	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a _ spasibo	no small thing					tree rules

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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