Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 121
And the ears grew fuller and fuller, till they were fairly bent right down to the ground.
Who acts: ears · What happens: grow, bend · To what, where: ears
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (ears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 grew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ears | det |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fuller | full | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fuller | cc |
| 7 | fuller | full | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 fuller | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bent | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 bent | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bent | aux:pass |
| 12 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 13 bent | advmod |
| 13 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grew | conj |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 bent | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 down | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the ears | full property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bend | past · passive | ears = ear | down, fairly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
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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