The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 143

On the third night he sat down again on his bench, and said, in the most desponding way: “If I could only shudder!”

Who acts: luck · What happens: sit down, say, despond · To what, where: bench · 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 (luck), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 night	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 night	amod
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sat	nsubj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 sat	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 sat	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bench	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bench	nmod:poss
11	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sat	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 way	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 desponding	advmod
19	desponding	despond	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 way	amod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	ccomp
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 shudder	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 shudder	punct
23	If	if	SCONJ	_	25 could	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 could	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 shudder	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 shudder	advmod
27	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	appos
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 shudder	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	sit down	past	luck	luck's bench	again; night	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	luck not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	despond	gerund				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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