The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 125
And he put his ear down to the earth, to listen if he could hear the sound of his brother’s beasts.
Who acts: master · What happens: put down, listen, hear · To what, where: ear, sound
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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 | _ | 3 put | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 earth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 earth | det |
| 9 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 listen | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 listen | mark |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | aux |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 listen | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sound | det |
| 18 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beasts | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 brother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beasts | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 brother | case |
| 23 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sound | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | master | master's ear | to the earth; down property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ear=Goal | |||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | master not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear a condition, not said to happen | could | master | the sound of master's brother's beasts | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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