The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 14

“Only think! when I asked him how he purposed gaining a livelihood, he actually asked to be taught to shudder.”

Who acts: you, father · What happens: think, ask, purpose, gain, teach · To what, where: father, livelihood, shudder · 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 (you, father), 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	_	3 think	punct
2	Only	only	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 asked	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	iobj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 purposed	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 purposed	nsubj
11	purposed	purpose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asked	advcl
12	gaining	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 purposed	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 livelihood	det
14	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gaining	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	nsubj
17	actually	actually	ADV	_	18 asked	advmod
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 taught	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 taught	aux:pass
21	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 asked	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 shudder	mark
23	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taught	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	imperative	you not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	father		father		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	purpose speech: other in a quote	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	gain in a quote	gerund	father not said here	a livelihood			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livelihood=Theme
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	father			actually property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	teach speech: other not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive		shudder			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»

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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