Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 18
The Soldier listened to this without letting a single word escape him.
Who acts: Soldier, single word · What happens: listen, let, escape · To what, where: single word, Soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier, single word), 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 Soldier | det |
| 2 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 listened | obl |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 letting | mark |
| 7 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 listened | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 word | det |
| 9 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 word | amod |
| 10 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 letting | obj |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 letting | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 escape | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the Soldier | to this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | gerund | the Soldier not said here | a single word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | infinitive | a single word not said here | Soldier | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Initial_Location |
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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