The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 159
“Oh! you miserable creature, now you will soon know what it is to shudder,” he cried, “for you must die.”
Who acts: you, creature, man · What happens: creature, know, be, cry, die · To what, where: miserable creature, shudder · 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, creature, 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 creature | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 creature | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 creature | nsubj |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 know | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 creature | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 shudder | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shudder | cop |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shudder | mark |
| 17 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 creature | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cried | nsubj |
| 21 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 die | nsubj |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cried | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature in a quote | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know in a quote | future | you | miserable creature | now | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | creature | shudder | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | must | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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