The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 85

“I would listen so hard that I should hear all his plans.”

Who acts: bear · What happens: listen, hear, plan · To what, where: plans

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear), 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	_	4 listen	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	aux
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 listen	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 hear	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 plans	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 plans	nmod:poss
13	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hear	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	would	bear		hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	hear in a quote	should	bear	bear's plans		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plan=Stimulus
3	plan in a quote		bear			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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