The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 157
“I simply can’t shudder,” he said, “and it’s clear I sha’n’t learn it in a lifetime here.”
Who acts: man · What happens: not shudder, say, be, not learn · To what, where: shudder, lifetime · 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), 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 | _ | 6 shudder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 shudder | nsubj |
| 3 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 6 shudder | advmod |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 shudder | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 shudder | advmod |
| 6 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shudder | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 shudder | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 clear | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 clear | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 clear | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 clear | expl |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 clear | cop |
| 16 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 learn | nsubj |
| 18 | sha’ | sha' | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 learn | advmod |
| 20 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 clear | csubj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learn | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 lifetime | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lifetime | det |
| 24 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 learn | obl |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 learn | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shudder in a quote | can | man | simply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not learn in a quote | infinitive | man | shudder | a lifetime; here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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