The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 119

The landlord, when he went to him, opened his eyes wide, and said: “Well, I never thought to see you alive again.

Who acts: landlord, I · What happens: go, open, say, not think, see · To what, where: King, eyes, you · 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 (landlord, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 landlord	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 went	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 opened	obj
13	wide	wide	ADV	_	10 opened	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct
19	Well	well	INTJ	_	23 thought	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Well	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 thought	nsubj
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 thought	advmod
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 thought	xcomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	obj
27	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 see	xcomp
28	again	again	ADV	_	25 see	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the landlord		King			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	open	past	the landlord not said here	King's eyes			wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not think speech: other in a quote	past	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		again	alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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