Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7, sentence 36

I shall be still more glad if I succeed in interesting the general reader in the tales of the Russian People, and through them, in the lives of those Russian men and women of low degree who are wont to tell them, those Russian children who love to hear them.

Who acts: I, low degree, Russian children, Russian People · What happens: be, succeed, tell, love, hear · To what, where: lives, general reader, interesting, tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, low degree, Russian children, Russian People), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 glad	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 glad	amod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 succeed	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 succeed	nsubj
9	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 interesting	case
11	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 succeed	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reader	det
13	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reader	amod
14	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 succeed	obl:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 tales	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tales	det
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 succeed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 People	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 People	det
20	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 People	amod
21	People	People	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 tales	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 them	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 them	cc
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 glad	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lives	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 lives	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lives	det
29	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 glad	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 men	case
31	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 men	det
32	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lives	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 women	cc
35	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 degree	case
37	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 degree	amod
38	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 women	nmod
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 wont	nsubj
40	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 wont	cop
41	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 degree	acl:relcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 tell	mark
43	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 wont	xcomp
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 tell	iobj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 children	punct
46	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	48 children	det
47	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 children	amod
48	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 men	appos
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 love	nsubj
50	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 children	acl:relcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 hear	mark
52	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 love	xcomp
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 hear	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	shall	I			the lives of that Russian men and women of low degree	still	glad property	tree rules
2	succeed a condition, not said to happen	present	I	the general reader		interesting		in the tales of the Russian People	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in interesting=Eventuality
3	is	present	low degree					wont property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	low degree not said here		tales = tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
5	love	present	that Russian children						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	that Russian children not said here	tales = tale					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	tell		the Russian People						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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