The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 100
“After watching you narrowly,” said he, “I no longer feel any desire to play cards with you”; and with these words he struck them dead and threw them out into the water.
Who acts: friend, desire · What happens: watch, say, feel, play, strike, throw out · To what, where: you, desire, cards, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, desire), 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 | _ | 3 watching | punct |
| 2 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 watching | mark |
| 3 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 watching | obj |
| 5 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 3 watching | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 watching | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 watching | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 feel | advmod |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 desire | det |
| 17 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feel | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 play | mark |
| 19 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 20 | cards | card | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 play | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 play | obl |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 struck | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 struck | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 words | case |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 words | det |
| 28 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 struck | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 struck | nsubj |
| 30 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 struck | obj |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 struck | xcomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 threw | cc |
| 34 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 struck | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 threw | obj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 threw | compound:prt |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 water | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 water | det |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 threw | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch in a quote | gerund | you | narrowly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feel in a quote | infinitive | friend | any desire | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | play in a quote | to-infinitive | any desire not said here | cards | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent card=Theme with you=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | strike | past | friend | cards = card | with this words; dead property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with word=Instrument | |||
| 6 | throw out | past | friend not said here | cards = card | into the water result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into water=Result |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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