Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 72

The obscurity of the Celtic tale forms a striking contrast to the lucidity of the Slavonic.

Who acts: obscurity · What happens: form, strike · To what, where: striking contrast, lucidity

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 (obscurity), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 obscurity	det
2	obscurity	obscurity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forms	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 tale	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tale	det
5	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 obscurity	nmod
7	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 contrast	det
9	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 contrast	amod
10	contrast	contrast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forms	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 lucidity	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lucidity	det
13	lucidity	lucidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contrast	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Slavonic	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Slavonic	det
16	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lucidity	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 forms	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	the obscurity of the Celtic tale	a striking contrast	the lucidity of the Slavonic				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent contrast=Theme to lucidity=Recipient
2	strike	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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