Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 34

[426] Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world, also, are current in Western Europe, such as that about the rye--which in olden days was a mass of ears from top to bottom.

Who acts: 426 Many, rye · What happens: be · To what, where: Western Europe, mass

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 (426 Many, rye), 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	_	2 426	punct
2	426	426	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Many	nummod
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 426	punct
4	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 current	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 stories	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stories	det
7	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stories	amod
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Many	nmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 ages	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ages	det
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ages	amod
12	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stories	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 world	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ages	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 current	punct
17	also	also	ADV	_	20 current	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 current	punct
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 current	cop
20	current	current	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 Europe	case
22	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Europe	amod
23	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 current	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 that	punct
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	27 that	case
26	as	as	ADP	_	25 such	fixed
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 current	obl
28	about	about	ADP	_	30 rye	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rye	det
30	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 that	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	38 mass	punct
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 mass	nsubj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 days	case
34	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 days	amod
35	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 mass	obl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 mass	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mass	det
38	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rye	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 ears	case
40	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 mass	nmod
41	from	from	ADP	_	42 top	case
42	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ears	nmod
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 bottom	case
44	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 top	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 current	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	426 Many of the Russian stories about the early ages of the world			Western Europe		such that; current property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the rye	a mass			day	of ears from top to bottom	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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