The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 15

“If that’s all he wants,” said the sexton, “I can teach him that; just you send him to me, I’ll soon polish him up.”

Who acts: father, sexton, you · What happens: want, say, teach, send, 'll, polish up · To what, where: that, father, sexton · 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 (father, sexton, you), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 all	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 all	nsubj
4	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 said	ccomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sexton	det
12	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 teach	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 teach	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 teach	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 teach	aux
17	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 teach	obj
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 teach	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 send	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 send	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 send	nsubj
23	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 send	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 send	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ’ll	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 ’ll	nsubj
29	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 polish	advcl
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 ’ll	advmod
31	polish	polish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 polish	obj
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 polish	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want in a quote	present	father				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	past	the sexton				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	teach speech: other in a quote	can	the sexton = sexton	that	father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
4	send in a quote	present	you	father	the sexton = sexton		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination
5	'll in a quote	present	the sexton = sexton			soon property	tree rules
6	polish up in a quote	present			father		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

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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