The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 124

“Hi, up there!” shouted he; “there’s another half wanted down here, that’s not enough”; then the din commenced once more, there was a shrieking and a yelling, and then the other half fell down.

Who acts: half, that, din, shrieking, other half · What happens: shout, want down, not be, commence, be, fall down · To what, where: half · 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 (half, that, din, shrieking), 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	_	8 shouted	punct
2	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	5 there	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
4	up	up	ADV	_	5 there	advmod
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shouted	advmod
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 there	punct
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shouted	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ’s	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 ’s	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 ’s	expl
13	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	conj
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	15 half	det
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	16 wanted	nsubj
16	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ’s	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 wanted	advmod
18	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 wanted	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 enough	punct
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 enough	nsubj
21	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enough	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 enough	advmod
23	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ’s	parataxis
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 enough	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 commenced	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 commenced	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 din	det
28	din	din	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 commenced	nsubj
29	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	conj
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 more	advmod
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 commenced	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 commenced	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shrieking	det
36	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 yelling	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 yelling	det
39	yelling	yelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shrieking	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 fell	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fell	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	46 fell	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 half	det
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 half	amod
45	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	46 fell	nsubj
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shouted	conj
47	down	down	ADV	_	46 fell	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past		half	there			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	want down in a quote	past	another half		here		down property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	not is in a quote	present	that				enough property	tree rules
4	commence	past	the din			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	be	past	a shrieking and a yelling		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fall down	past	the other half			then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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