The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 118
“First-rate,” he answered; “and now I’ve survived the one night, I shall get through the other two also.”
Who acts: King · What happens: answer, have, survive, get · To what, where: other two · 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 (King), 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 | _ | 4 rate | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 rate | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 First | punct |
| 4 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rate | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 rate | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ’ve | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ’ve | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ’ve | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ve | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | advcl |
| 15 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ’ve | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 night | det |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 night | nummod |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 survived | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’ve | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 23 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 two | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 two | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 two | amod |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 get | obl |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | King | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | survive in a quote | past | King not said here | night | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | shall | King | the other two | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through two=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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