Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 29

As in other European countries, so in Russia, the romantic stories of the people are full of pictures bathed in warm sunlight, but they do not often represent the aspect of the land when the sky is grey, and the earth is a sheet of white, and outdoor life is sombre and still.

Who acts: romantic stories, people, sky, earth, outdoor life · What happens: be, bath, not represent · To what, where: Russia, pictures, warm sunlight, aspect, sheet

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 (romantic stories, people, sky, earth), 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	_	5 countries	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 countries	case
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 countries	amod
4	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 countries	amod
5	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 full	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	18 full	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Russia	case
9	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 full	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Russia	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stories	det
12	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 people	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stories	nmod
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 full	cop
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 countries	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pictures	case
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	bathed	bath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 pictures	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sunlight	case
23	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 sunlight	amod
24	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bathed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 represent	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 represent	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 represent	nsubj
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 represent	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 represent	advmod
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 represent	advmod
31	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 full	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 aspect	det
33	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 represent	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 land	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 land	det
36	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 aspect	nmod
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 grey	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sky	det
39	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grey	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 grey	cop
41	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 represent	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sheet	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sheet	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 earth	det
45	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sheet	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 sheet	cop
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 sheet	det
48	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 grey	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 white	case
50	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sheet	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 sombre	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sombre	cc
53	outdoor	outdoor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 life	amod
54	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 sombre	nsubj
55	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 sombre	cop
56	sombre	sombre	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sheet	parataxis
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 still	cc
58	still	still	ADV	_	56 sombre	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 countries	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the romantic stories of the people		Russia	of pictures; full property	tree rules
2	bath	participle		pictures not said here	warm sunlight		tree rules
3	not represent	present · do-support	people	the aspect of the land		often property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot aspect=Theme
4	is	present	the sky			grey property	tree rules
5	is a	present	the earth	a sheet		of white	tree rules
6	is	present	outdoor life			sombre property	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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