The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 163
“Gently, gently, don’t boast too much, I’m as strong as you, and stronger too.”
Who acts: you, monster · What happens: not boast, be · To what, where: much
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, 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 | _ | 8 boast | punct |
| 2 | Gently | gently | ADV | _ | 4 gently | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gently | punct |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 boast | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gently | punct |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 boast | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 boast | advmod |
| 8 | boast | boast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boast | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’m | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’m | nsubj |
| 13 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 boast | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 strong | advmod |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ’m | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 strong | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stronger | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stronger | cc |
| 20 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 boast | parataxis |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 stronger | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 boast | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 boast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not boast speech: other in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | much | gently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | the monster = monster | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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