The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 103

He looked on quietly for a time, but when it got beyond a joke he seized his carving-knife and called out: “Be off, you rabble rout!” and let fly at them.

Who acts: friend, fire, you · What happens: look on, get, seize, call out, be, rabble · To what, where: carving knife, rout · 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, fire, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 looked	compound:prt
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 got	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
13	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	15 joke	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 joke	det
15	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seized	nsubj
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 joke	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knife	nmod:poss
19	carving	carving	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knife	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 carving	punct
21	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 called	cc
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seized	conj
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 called	compound:prt
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 off	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 off	punct
27	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 off	cop
28	off	off	ADV	_	12 got	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rabble	punct
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 rabble	nsubj
31	rabble	rabble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 off	parataxis
32	rout	rout	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rabble	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 rabble	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 rabble	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
36	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 got	conj
37	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fly	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look on	past	friend		time	quietly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	get	past	fire			beyond a joke	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	seize	past	friend	friend's carving knife			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
4	call out speech: express	participle	friend not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	infinitive	fire not said here			off property	tree rules
6	rabble in a quote	present	you	rout			tree rules
7	let	infinitive	fire not said here				tree rules
8	fly	infinitive	fire not said here			at nook	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=Location

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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