Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 24

Skazkas or Russian folk-tales, their value as pictures of Russian life, 19-23; occurrence of word _skazka_ in, 23; their openings, 62; their endings, 83

Who acts: Tales, openings · What happens: value, end

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tales, openings), 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	Skazkas	skazka	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 tales	cc
3	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tales	amod
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tales	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 folk	punct
6	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Skazkas	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 value	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 value	nmod:poss
9	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skazkas	conj
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 pictures	case
11	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 value	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pictures	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 19-23	punct
16	19-23	19-23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Skazkas	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 occurrence	punct
18	occurrence	occurrence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skazkas	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 word	case
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 occurrence	nmod
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 skazka	punct
22	skazka	skazka	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Skazkas	conj
23	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 in	punct
24	in	in	ADV	_	1 Skazkas	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 23	punct
26	23	23	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Skazkas	appos
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 openings	punct
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 openings	nmod:poss
29	openings	opening	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Skazkas	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 62	punct
31	62	62	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 openings	appos
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 endings	punct
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 endings	nmod:poss
34	endings	ending	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Skazkas	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 83	punct
36	83	83	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 endings	appos

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	value		Tales = tale					as pictures of Russian life	nom value «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl
2	end		openings = opening						nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=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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