Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 74

The pope wouldn't so much as listen to the old man.

Who acts: pope · What happens: listen

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pope	det
2	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 listen	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 much	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	8 listen	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 listen	mark
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listen	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	would	the pope					to the old man	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to man=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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