The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 16
The father was quite pleased with the proposal, because he thought: “It will be a good discipline for the youth.”
Who acts: father, proposal · What happens: be, think · To what, where: good discipline · 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, proposal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 proposal | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 proposal | det |
| 8 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleased | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleased | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 discipline | punct |
| 15 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 discipline | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 discipline | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 discipline | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 discipline | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 discipline | amod |
| 20 | discipline | discipline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 youth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youth | det |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 discipline | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 discipline | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 discipline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the father | with the proposal; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | father | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | proposal | a good discipline | for the youth | tree rules |
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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