The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 130

The youth thought he would like to play too, and said: “Look here; do you mind my joining the game?”

Who acts: youth, man, you · What happens: think, like, play, say, look, mind · To what, where: joining game · 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, man, you), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 like	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 play	mark
8	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 like	xcomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 play	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Look	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Look	punct
15	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 Look	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 mind	punct
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 mind	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 mind	nsubj
20	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 game	nmod:poss
22	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 game	amod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 game	det
24	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mind	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 mind	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 mind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the youth			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	like	would	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the youth not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	look in a quote	infinitive			here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	mind in a quote	present · do-support	you	my joining game		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
7	join in a quote	gerund				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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