Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 128

[There is a story in the "Panchatantra" (v. 12) which, in default of other parallels, may be worth comparing with that part of this Skazka which refers to the blind man and the cripple in the forest.

Who acts: story, Skazka, other parallels · What happens: be, v., compare, refer, default · To what, where: default

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, Skazka, other parallels), 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Panchatantra	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Panchatantra	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Panchatantra	punct
9	Panchatantra	Panchatantra	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Panchatantra	punct
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 v.	punct
12	v.	v.	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 is	parataxis
13	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 which	nummod
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 12	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 v.	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 default	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 default	case
18	default	default	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 v.	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 parallels	case
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parallels	amod
21	parallels	parallel	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 default	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 worth	punct
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 worth	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 worth	cop
25	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 default	conj
26	comparing	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 worth	xcomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 part	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 part	det
29	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 comparing	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Skazka	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 Skazka	det
32	Skazka	Skazka	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 part	nmod
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 refers	nsubj
34	refers	refer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Skazka	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 man	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 refers	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 cripple	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cripple	det
41	cripple	cripple	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 man	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 forest	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 forest	det
44	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cripple	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a story in the Panchatantra	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	v.	infinitive		default of other parallels		tree rules
3	is	may			worth property	tree rules
4	compare	gerund			with that part of this Skazka	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with part=Co-Patient
5	refer	present	this Skazka		to the blind man and the cripple in the forest	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to man=Co-Theme
6	default		other parallels			nom default «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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