The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 149

“Wait,” he said “I’ll heat you up a bit,” went to the fire, warmed his hand, and laid it on the man’s face, but the dead remained cold.

Who acts: you, man, dead · What happens: wait, say, heat up, go, warm, lay · To what, where: you, fire, hand, face · 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, man, dead), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:1079): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
2	Wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Wait	parataxis
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 heat	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heat	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heat	aux
10	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 heat	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 heat	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heat	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heat	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 heat	punct
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 warmed	punct
22	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 warmed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 laid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 laid	cc
27	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 laid	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	33 face	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 face	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 man	case
33	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 laid	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 remained	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 remained	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dead	det
37	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 remained	nsubj
38	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
39	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 remained	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	heat up in a quote	future	man	you		a bit obl:unmarked	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	go	past	man not said here		the fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial_Location
5	warm	past	man not said here	man's hand			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
6	lay	past	man not said here	hand	the man's face		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on face=Destination
7	remain	past	the dead			cold property	vn exist-47.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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