The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 166
“I can do better than that,” cried the youth, and went to the other anvil.
Who acts: youth · What happens: do, cry, go · To what, where: other anvil · 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 (youth), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 better | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 youth | det |
| 12 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 anvil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 anvil | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 anvil | amod |
| 19 | anvil | anvil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | the youth = youth | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the youth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the youth not said here | the other anvil | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to anvil=Initial_Location |
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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