Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 51

There used always to be an echo in this cave, but I can’t hear the slightest echo to-night.

Who acts: I · What happens: use, be, not hear · To what, where: echo, cave, slightest echo

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 used	expl
2	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 used	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	7 echo	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 echo	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 echo	det
7	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 echo	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 hear	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hear	aux
15	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hear	advmod
16	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 echo	det
18	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 echo	amod
19	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 night	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle			there		always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		a echo	this cave			tree rules
3	not hear	can	I	the slightest echo		night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 51

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 51