Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 88

This book was originally typeset using three different font sizes: largest for the main body of the text, smaller for the text of the tales, and smallest for the square bracketed author notes.

Who acts: book, square · What happens: be, use, bracket · To what, where: three different font sizes, author notes

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 (book, square), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 book	det
2	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 typeset	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 typeset	cop
4	originally	originally	ADV	_	5 typeset	advmod
5	typeset	typeset	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 smallest	advcl
6	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 typeset	xcomp
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 sizes	nummod
8	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sizes	amod
9	font	font	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sizes	compound
10	sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 using	obj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 largest	punct
12	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 sizes	nmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 body	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 body	det
15	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 body	amod
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 largest	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 text	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 text	det
19	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 body	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 smaller	punct
21	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 largest	amod
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 text	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 text	det
24	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 smaller	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tales	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tales	det
27	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 text	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 smallest	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 smallest	cc
30	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 square	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 square	det
33	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 smallest	nmod
34	bracketed	bracket	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 square	acl
35	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 notes	compound
36	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bracketed	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 smallest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	this book		originally, typeset property	tree rules
2	use	gerund	this book not said here	three different font sizes largest		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient
3	bracket	participle	the square not said here	author notes		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme

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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