The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 153

But the dead man rose up and cried out: “Now I will strangle you.”

Who acts: dead man, youth · What happens: rise up, cry out, strangle · 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 (dead man, youth), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 rose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	nsubj
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 rose	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cried	cc
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rose	conj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 cried	compound:prt
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 strangle	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 strangle	punct
12	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 strangle	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 strangle	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 strangle	aux
15	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rose	parataxis
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 strangle	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 strangle	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 strangle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	rise up	past	the dead man			tree rules
2	cry out speech: express	past	the dead man not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strangle in a quote	future	the youth = youth	you	now	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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