The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 134

“Now they’ll roll along better,” said he, “and houp-la! now the fun begins.”

Who acts: skulls, man, houp · What happens: roll, say, begin · 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 (skulls, man, houp), 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	_	5 roll	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 roll	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roll	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 roll	aux
5	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	along	along	ADV	_	5 roll	advmod
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 roll	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 roll	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 begins	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 begins	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begins	cc
15	houp	houp	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begins	nsubj:outer
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 la	punct
17	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	15 houp	conj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 houp	punct
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 begins	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fun	det
21	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begins	nsubj
22	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 begins	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	roll in a quote	future	skulls = skull	now	along, good property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin in a quote	present	houp	now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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