Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Tsar and the Angel, sentence 2

He listened to no good counsel from whithersoever it might come, but did only that which was good in his own eyes, and nobody durst put him right.

Who acts: man, Tsar, nobody durst · What happens: listen, come, do, be, put · To what, where: own eyes, man

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Tsar and the Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Tsar, nobody durst), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 counsel	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 counsel	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 counsel	amod
6	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
7	from	from	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
8	whithersoever	whithersoever	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 listened	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 did	cc
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	19 good	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 good	mark
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 good	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 good	cop
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 did	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 good	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 durst	compound
27	durst	durst	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	nsubj
28	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	right	right	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	man			to no good counsel	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=Theme
2	come	might	Tsar			whithersoever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	man not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			man's own eyes	good property	tree rules
5	put	past	nobody durst	man		right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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