The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 115

Then he said: “What a pity! and such a fine fellow he was.”

Who acts: other · What happens: say · 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), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 pity	punct
6	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	8 pity	det
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pity	det
8	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 pity	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fellow	cc
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 fellow	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fellow	det
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fellow	amod
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pity	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 fellow	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pity	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 pity	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	other				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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