Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 1

We will take next a story which is a great favorite in Russia, and which will serve as another illustration of the use made of magical "properties" in the Skazkas.

Who acts: We, story · What happens: take, be, serve, make, illustrate · To what, where: story, great favorite, Russia, use

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (We, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADV	_	3 take	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 favorite	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 favorite	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 favorite	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 favorite	amod
11	favorite	favorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Russia	case
13	Russia	Russia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 favorite	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 serve	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 serve	cc
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 serve	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 serve	aux
18	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 take	parataxis
19	as	as	ADP	_	21 illustration	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 illustration	det
21	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 serve	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 use	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 illustration	nmod
25	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 use	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 properties	case
27	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 properties	amod
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 properties	punct
29	properties	property	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 made	obl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 properties	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 Skazkas	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Skazkas	det
33	Skazkas	Skazkas	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 properties	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	future	We	a story		next property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme
2	is a	present	a story	a great favorite	Russia		tree rules
3	serve	future				as another illustration of the use	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as illustration=Attribute
4	make	participle		the use not said here		of magical properties in the Skazkas	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	illustrate			the use			nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=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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