Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 71

[382] In Europe it is usually found in a very crude and fragmentary form, having been preserved, for the most part, as the introduction to some other story which has proved more attractive to the popular fancy.

What happens: find, preserve, prove · To what, where: myth, crude form, other story

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: 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 382	punct
2	382	382	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 found	obl
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 382	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 382	nmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux:pass
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 found	advmod
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	16 form	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 form	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 crude	advmod
13	crude	crude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fragmentary	cc
15	fragmentary	fragmentary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crude	conj
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 preserved	punct
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 preserved	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 preserved	aux:pass
20	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 found	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 part	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 part	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 part	det
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 part	amod
25	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 preserved	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 introduction	punct
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 introduction	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 introduction	det
29	introduction	introduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 preserved	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 story	case
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 story	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 story	amod
33	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 introduction	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 proved	nsubj:pass
35	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 proved	aux
36	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 story	acl:relcl
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 attractive	advmod
38	attractive	attractive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 proved	xcomp
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 fancy	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 fancy	det
41	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fancy	amod
42	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 attractive	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive	myth	a crude form	382 in Europe obl; usually property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	preserve	gerund · perfect · passive			as the introduction to some other story	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»
3	prove	present · perfect · passive	some other story		attractive property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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