The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 145

Then he cried: “Ha! ha! that’s most likely my little cousin who only died a few days ago”; and beckoning with his finger he called out: “Come, my small cousin, come.”

Who acts: man, that, little cousin · What happens: cry, be, die, beckon out, call out, come · To what, where: little cousin, finger, small cousin · 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 (man, that, little cousin), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Ha	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Ha	punct
6	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	3 cried	discourse
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct
8	ha	ha	INTJ	_	3 cried	discourse
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 cousin	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 cousin	nsubj
11	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cousin	cop
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	13 likely	advmod
13	likely	likely	ADV	_	16 cousin	advmod
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cousin	nmod:poss
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cousin	amod
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 died	nsubj
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 died	advmod
19	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cousin	acl:relcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 days	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 days	amod
22	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ago	obl:unmarked
23	ago	ago	ADV	_	19 died	advmod
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 died	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 beckoning	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 beckoning	cc
27	beckoning	beckon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cried	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 finger	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 finger	nmod:poss
30	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beckoning	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 called	nsubj
32	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 finger	acl:relcl
33	out	out	ADP	_	27 beckoning	compound:prt
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
35	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
36	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cried	parataxis
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 cousin	punct
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 cousin	nmod:poss
39	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cousin	amod
40	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Come	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 come	punct
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 Come	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 Come	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	man		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	that	my little cousin		likely property	tree rules
3	die in a quote	past	my little cousin			ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	beckon out	gerund	man not said here			with man's finger	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	call out speech: assert	past	man	man's finger not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent finger=Recipient
6	come in a quote	infinitive		my small cousin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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