The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 178

My dead cousin was here, and an old bearded man came, who showed me heaps of money down below there, but what shuddering is no one has told me.”

Who acts: dead cousin, old bearded man · What happens: be, come, show, tell · To what, where: heaps, me, shuddering · 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 (dead cousin, old bearded 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cousin	amod
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 here	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 here	cop
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 showed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
10	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 here	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 showed	iobj
17	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 showed	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 money	case
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heaps	nmod
20	down	down	ADV	_	22 there	advmod
21	below	below	ADV	_	22 there	advmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 showed	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 what	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 what	cc
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 showed	parataxis
26	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	nsubj:pass
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux:pass
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	nsubj:pass
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 told	aux
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 what	acl:relcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 what	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	My dead cousin			here property	tree rules
2	come	past	a old bearded man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	past		heaps of money	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient heap=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		shuddering	me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic

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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