Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 28

As a general rule, Winter plays by no means so important a part as might have been expected in Northern tales.

Who acts: Winter, general rule · What happens: play, mean, expect · To what, where: general rule, Northern tales

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter, general rule), 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 rule	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
3	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rule	amod
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 means	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plays	punct
6	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 plays	nsubj
7	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	acl:relcl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 no	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 plays	obl
10	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 important	advmod
12	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 means	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 important	nsubj
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 expected	mark
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 expected	aux
17	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 expected	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 expected	aux:pass
19	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 important	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 tales	case
21	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tales	amod
22	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 expected	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	Winter	a general rule not said here		by no	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
2	mean	present	a general rule			important property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	expect	might · perfect · passive	a general rule not said here		Northern tales		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

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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