Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 102
The prince bent his ear to the ground, but he could hear nothing.
Who acts: prince · What happens: bend, hear · To what, where: ear, nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hear | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | aux |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bent | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 hear | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | the prince | Prince's ear | to the ground result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent ear=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 2 | hear | could | Prince | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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