The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 113
But he tossed the blankets and pillows in the air, emerged from underneath, and said: “Now anyone who has the fancy for it may go a drive,” lay down at his fire, and slept till daylight.
Who acts: other, anyone · What happens: toss, emerge, say, have, go, lie down · To what, where: blankets, air, fancy, drive, fire · 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 (other, anyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 tossed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tossed | nsubj |
| 3 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blankets | det |
| 5 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tossed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pillows | cc |
| 7 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blankets | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tossed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 emerged | punct |
| 12 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 air | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 underneath | case |
| 14 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 12 emerged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tossed | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 20 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 go | advmod |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 29 go | nsubj |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fancy | det |
| 25 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | obl |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 drive | det |
| 31 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 go | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | advcl |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 lay | advmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 fire | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 fire | nmod:poss |
| 38 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 slept | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 slept | cc |
| 41 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 lay | conj |
| 42 | till | till | ADP | _ | 43 daylight | case |
| 43 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 slept | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past | other | the blankets and pillows | the air | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme in air=Destination | |||
| 2 | emerge | participle | the air not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from underneath=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | other not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the fancy | for fancy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go in a quote | may | anyone | a drive | now | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drive=Theme | |||
| 6 | lie down | past | other not said here | other's fire | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fire=Location | |||
| 7 | sleep | past | other not said here | till daylight | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | fire | other | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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