Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 118

For a number of interesting legends, collected from the most distant parts of the world, about grinding mountains and crashing cliffs, &c., see Tylor's "Primitive Culture," pp.

Who acts: you · What happens: collect, grind, crash, see · To what, where: interesting legends, distant parts, mountains, cliffs, Primitive Culture

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 number	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 number	det
3	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 legends	case
5	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legends	amod
6	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 number	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 collected	punct
8	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 legends	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 parts	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 parts	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 distant	advmod
12	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 parts	amod
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collected	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 world	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 world	det
16	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 parts	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grinding	punct
18	about	about	SCONJ	_	19 grinding	mark
19	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 collected	advcl
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grinding	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crashing	cc
22	crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 grinding	conj
23	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 crashing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 c.	punct
25	&	&	CCONJ	_	26 c.	cc
26	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 number	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 number	punct
28	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Culture	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Tylor	case
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 Culture	punct
32	Primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Culture	amod
33	Culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 pp	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 pp	punct
36	pp	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 Culture	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	participle		interesting legends not said here	the distant parts of the world		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from part=Source
2	grind	gerund		mountains			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient
3	crash	gerund		cliffs			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cliff=Patient
4	see	imperative	you not said here	Tylor's Primitive Culture and pp		for a number of interesting legends & c.	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer culture=Stimulus

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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