Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 31

But it is seldom that a wintry effect is so deliberately produced in them as is the case in the following remarkable version of a well-known tale.

Who acts: story · What happens: be, produce, follow, know · To what, where: wintry effect, case, remarkable version

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 (story), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 seldom	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seldom	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seldom	cop
4	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	18 case	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 produced	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 effect	det
7	wintry	wintry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 effect	amod
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 produced	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 produced	aux:pass
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 produced	advmod
11	deliberately	deliberately	ADV	_	12 produced	advmod
12	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seldom	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 produced	obl
15	as	as	ADV	_	12 produced	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 case	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 case	det
18	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 version	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 version	det
21	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 version	case
22	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 version	amod
23	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 case	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	29 tale	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 tale	det
26	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 known	advmod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 well	punct
28	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tale	amod
29	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 version	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 case	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	story			seldom property	tree rules
2	produce	present · passive		a wintry effect		in skazkas = skazka; deliberately property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	is a	present		the case	the remarkable version of a known tale		tree rules
4	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/31/