The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 162
“I shall soon lay hold of you,” spoke the monster.
Who acts: monster · What happens: lay, speak, hold · To what, where: hold, 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 (monster), 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 | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | aux |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 lay | advmod |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 spoke | ccomp |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 you | case |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monster | det |
| 13 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | shall | the monster = monster | hold of you | soon property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the monster | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | you | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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