Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 30

To the Russian peasants, it should be observed, Moroz, our own Jack Frost, is a living personage.

What happens: observe, be · To what, where: corpse, Russian peasants, living personage

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 peasants	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasants	det
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 peasants	amod
4	peasants	peasant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 observed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 peasants	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 observed	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 observed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 observed	aux:pass
9	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Moroz	punct
11	Moroz	Moroz	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Frost	punct
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 Frost	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Frost	amod
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Frost	compound
16	Frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Moroz	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 personage	punct
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 personage	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 personage	det
20	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 personage	amod
21	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 observed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	should · passive		corpse	the Russian peasants			Moroz obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to peasant=Recipient
2	is a	present		a living personage					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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