The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 180
“That’s all charming,” he said; “but I still don’t know what it is to shudder.”
Who acts: That, King, charming · What happens: be, say, not know · To what, where: charming, shudder · 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 (That, King, charming), 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 charming | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 charming | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 charming | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 charming | det |
| 5 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 know | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 shudder | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 shudder | cop |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 shudder | mark |
| 22 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | all charming | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | King | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | charming | shudder | 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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