The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 108
“The very thing,” he said, and laid himself down in it.
Who acts: thing · What happens: say, lay down · To what, where: other, bed · 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 (thing), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 thing | advmod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 laid | cc |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 laid | obj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 laid | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the thing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lay down | past | other | bed | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in it=Destination |
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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