Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 113

In most of these stories the wife-gaining leap is so vaguely described that it is allowable to suppose that the original idea has been greatly obscured in the course of travel.

Who acts: it · What happens: gain, describe, be, suppose, obscure · To what, where: most, original idea, course · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 most	case
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 described	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 most	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leap	det
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gaining	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 wife	punct
9	gaining	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 leap	amod
10	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stories	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 described	aux:pass
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 described	advmod
13	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	_	14 described	advmod
14	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 allowable	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 allowable	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 allowable	cop
18	allowable	allowable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 described	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 suppose	mark
20	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 allowable	csubj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 obscured	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
23	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 idea	amod
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obscured	nsubj:pass
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 obscured	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 obscured	aux:pass
27	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	28 obscured	advmod
28	obscured	obscure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 suppose	ccomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 course	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 course	det
31	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 obscured	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 travel	case
33	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 course	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gain	gerund					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	describe	present · passive			most of this stories the gaining leap	vaguely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»
3	is	present	it			allowable property	tree rules
4	suppose	to-infinitive					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	obscure	present · perfect · passive		the original idea	the course of travel	greatly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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