The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 12
The father sighed, and answered him: “You’ll soon learn to shudder; but that won’t help you to make a living.”
Who acts: father, that · What happens: sigh, answer, learn, not help, make · To what, where: father, shudder, living · 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 (father, that), 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | parataxis |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 learn | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 learn | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 learn | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 learn | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 learn | advmod |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shudder | mark |
| 15 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learn | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 help | cc |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sighed | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 living | det |
| 26 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | future | father | shudder | soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic | |||
| 4 | not help in a quote | future | that | father | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | father not said here | a living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product |
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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