Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 80

[415] In Germany tales of horror similar to the Icelandic are by no means unknown, but the majority of them are to be found in districts which were once wholly Lettic or Slavonic, though they are now reckoned as Teutonic, such as East Prussia, or Pomerania, or Lusatia.

Who acts: 415, districts, horror · What happens: be, find, reckon, tell · To what, where: majority, districts, Lettic, corpses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (415, districts, horror), 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	_	2 415	punct
2	415	415	NUM	ExtPos=PROPN NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 means	nsubj
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 415	punct
4	In	in	ADP	_	6 tales	case
5	Germany	Germany	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tales	compound
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 415	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 horror	case
8	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tales	nmod
9	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 horror	amod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Icelandic	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Icelandic	det
12	Icelandic	Icelandic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 similar	obl
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 means	cop
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 means	mark
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 means	nsubj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 means	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 majority	det
21	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	nsubj:pass
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 majority	nmod
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 found	aux:pass
25	to	to	PART	_	27 found	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 found	aux:pass
27	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 means	parataxis
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 districts	case
29	districts	district	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 found	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 Lettic	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 Lettic	cop
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	34 Lettic	advmod
33	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	34 Lettic	advmod
34	Lettic	Lettic	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 districts	nmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 Slavonic	cc
36	Slavonic	Slavonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Lettic	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 reckoned	punct
38	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 reckoned	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 reckoned	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 reckoned	aux:pass
41	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 reckoned	advmod
42	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 found	conj
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 Teutonic	case
44	Teutonic	teutonic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 reckoned	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Prussia	punct
46	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	48 East	case
47	as	as	ADP	_	46 such	fixed
48	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Prussia	compound
49	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 reckoned	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Pomerania	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 Pomerania	cc
52	Pomerania	Pomerania	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Prussia	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Lusatia	punct
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	55 Lusatia	cc
55	Lusatia	Lusatia	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Prussia	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	415 in Germany tales of horror				mean, unknown property	tree rules
2	find	present · passive		the majority of corpses	districts			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	past	districts	Lettic or Slavonic			once, wholly property	tree rules
4	reckon	present · passive		corpses = corpse		now	as Teutonic; East Prussia or Pomerania or Lusatia obl	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Attribute
5	tell		horror					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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