Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 124
"Listen, Prince, you're always sleeping, you hear nothing!
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, sleep, hear · To what, where: Prince, nothing
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Prince | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sleeping | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sleeping | nsubj |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sleeping | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 sleeping | advmod |
| 9 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Listen | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hear | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Listen | advcl |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 hear | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | you | always property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present | you | 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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