Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 36

He did so, and the buckets were filled with "such beer as neither fancy nor imagination can conceive, but only a skazka can describe."

Who acts: guest, fancy, skazka · What happens: do, fill, conceive, describe · To what, where: buckets, such beer

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guest, fancy, skazka), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 describe	advcl
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 filled	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 filled	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 buckets	det
7	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 filled	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 filled	aux:pass
9	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 beer	case
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 beer	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beer	amod
13	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 filled	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 conceive	mark
15	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	16 fancy	det
16	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conceive	nsubj
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 imagination	cc
18	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fancy	conj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 conceive	aux
20	conceive	conceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 beer	acl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 describe	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 describe	cc
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 skazka	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 skazka	det
25	skazka	skazka	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 describe	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 describe	aux
27	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 describe	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 describe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	guest			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fill	past · passive		the buckets	with such beer	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with beer=Instrument
3	conceive in a quote	can	neither fancy nor imagination	such beer not said here		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
4	describe in a quote	can	a skazka			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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