Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 153

But it is very doubtful how far the stories in which they figure represent ancient Slavonic ideas.

Who acts: world, stories · What happens: be, figure, represent · To what, where: stories, ancient Slavonic ideas

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, stories), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 doubtful	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doubtful	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doubtful	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 doubtful	advmod
5	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 represent	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stories	det
9	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 represent	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 figure	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 figure	nsubj
13	figure	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stories	acl:relcl
14	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 doubtful	advcl
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ideas	amod
16	Slavonic	slavonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ideas	amod
17	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 represent	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 doubtful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	world			doubtful property	tree rules
2	figure	present	stories = story		the stories		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	represent	present	the stories	ancient Slavonic ideas		far property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot idea=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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