Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 69

The Beanstalk myth is one which is found among so many peoples in such widely distant regions, and it deals with ideas of such importance, that no contribution to its history can be considered valueless.

Who acts: Beanstalk myth, myth · What happens: be, find, deal, consider · To what, where: one, contribution

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 (Beanstalk myth, myth), 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	3 myth	det
2	Beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 myth	compound
3	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 found	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 one	acl:relcl
9	among	among	ADP	_	12 peoples	case
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 many	advmod
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 peoples	amod
12	peoples	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 regions	case
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 regions	amod
15	widely	widely	ADV	_	16 distant	advmod
16	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 regions	amod
17	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 peoples	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deals	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 deals	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 deals	nsubj
21	deals	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 ideas	case
23	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 deals	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 importance	case
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 importance	amod
26	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ideas	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 considered	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 considered	mark
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 contribution	det
30	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 considered	nsubj:pass
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 history	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 history	nmod:poss
33	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 contribution	nmod
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 considered	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 considered	aux:pass
36	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 deals	conj
37	valueless	valueless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 considered	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Beanstalk myth	one		tree rules
2	find	present · passive			among many peoples in such distant regions	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	deal	present	myth		with ideas of such importance	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with idea=Theme
4	consider	can · passive		no contribution to contribution's history	valueless property	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute

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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