The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 122

The second night he went up again to the old castle, sat down at the fire, and began his old refrain: “If I could only shudder!”

Who acts: King · What happens: go up, sit down, begin · To what, where: fire, old refrain

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 castle	amod
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 fire	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 began	cc
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 refrain	nmod:poss
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 refrain	amod
23	refrain	refrain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 began	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct
26	If	if	SCONJ	_	28 could	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 shudder	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 shudder	advmod
30	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refrain	appos
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	King			again; night	to the old castle	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit down	past	King not said here		the fire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at fire=Location
3	begin	past	King not said here	King's old refrain				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refrain=Eventuality

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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