The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 152
Then the youth said: “Now, my little cousin, what would have happened if I hadn’t warmed you?”
Who acts: youth, little cousin · What happens: say, happen, not warm · To what, where: you · 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 (youth, 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cousin | punct |
| 7 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 cousin | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cousin | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cousin | amod |
| 11 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 cousin | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 warmed | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 warmed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 warmed | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 warmed | advmod |
| 21 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 happened | advcl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 warmed | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 cousin | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cousin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the youth | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | would · perfect | my little cousin | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not warm a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past · perfect | the youth = youth | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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