The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 127
“Come,” said the youth, “I didn’t bargain for that, the seat is mine.”
Who acts: youth, seat · What happens: come, say, not bargain, be · To what, where: youth · 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 (youth, seat), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bargain | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bargain | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bargain | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bargain | aux |
| 12 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bargain | advmod |
| 13 | bargain | bargain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bargain | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mine | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 seat | det |
| 18 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mine | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mine | cop |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 bargain | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bargain | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bargain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not bargain in a quote | past · do-support | the youth = youth | for that | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the seat | the youth = youth | tree rules |
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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