The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 185

Neither the mole nor the field-mouse learnt anything of this, for they could not bear the poor swallow.

Who acts: mole, birds · What happens: learn, not bear · To what, where: anything, poor swallow

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mole, birds), 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	Neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 learnt	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mole	det
3	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learnt	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 mouse	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mouse	det
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mouse	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 field	punct
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mole	conj
9	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 learnt	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 anything	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bear	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 bear	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bear	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 bear	advmod
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 learnt	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 swallow	det
20	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 swallow	amod
21	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bear	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 learnt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	the mole nor the field mouse	anything					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
2	not bear	could	birds = bird	the poor swallow					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swallow=Patient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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