The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 140
“Didn’t you shudder then?”
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: 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 shudder | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shudder | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 shudder | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 shudder | nsubj |
| 5 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shudder | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shudder | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shudder | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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