Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 103

Many of the Russian stories closely resemble those of a similar nature which occur in German and Scandinavian collections; all of them, for instance, agreeing in the unfavorable light in which they place St. Peter.

Who acts: Many Russian stories, similar nature, instance, stories · What happens: resemble, occur, agree, place · To what, where: those, German collections, unfavorable light

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Many Russian stories, similar nature, instance, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 stories	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
4	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 resemble	nsubj
6	closely	closely	ADV	_	7 resemble	advmod
7	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 resemble	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 nature	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 nature	det
11	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nature	amod
12	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 those	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 occur	nsubj
14	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 nature	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 collections	case
16	German	German	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 collections	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Scandinavian	cc
18	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 German	conj
19	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 occur	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 instance	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 instance	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 all	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 instance	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 instance	case
26	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 resemble	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 agreeing	punct
28	agreeing	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 instance	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 light	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 light	det
31	unfavorable	unfavorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 light	amod
32	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 agreeing	obl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 light	nmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 place	nsubj
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 which	nsubj
37	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Peter	nmod:desc
38	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 place	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 resemble	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resemble	present	the Many Russian stories	those		for instance; closely property	tree rules
2	occur	present	a similar nature		German collections		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in collection=Location
3	agree speech: agree	gerund	instance not said here		the unfavorable light		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	place		stories = story				tree rules

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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