The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 181

Then the gold was brought up, and the wedding was celebrated, but the young King, though he loved his wife dearly, and though he was very happy, still kept on saying: “If I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

Who acts: King · What happens: bring up, celebrate, love, be, keep, say · To what, where: gold, wedding, wife · 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 (King), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 brought	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gold	det
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brought	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brought	aux:pass
5	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 brought	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 celebrated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 celebrated	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wedding	det
10	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 celebrated	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 celebrated	aux:pass
12	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 brought	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 King	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 King	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 King	amod
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 celebrated	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 loved	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 loved	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 loved	nsubj
21	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 celebrated	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wife	nmod:poss
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 loved	obj
24	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	21 loved	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 happy	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 happy	cc
27	though	though	SCONJ	_	31 happy	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 happy	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 happy	cop
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 happy	advmod
31	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brought	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kept	punct
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 kept	advmod
34	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 happy	conj
35	on	on	SCONJ	_	36 saying	mark
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 kept	advcl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 shudder	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	49 shudder	punct
39	If	if	SCONJ	_	41 could	mark
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 could	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 shudder	nsubj
42	only	only	ADV	_	43 shudder	advmod
43	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 could	nsubj
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	41 could	punct
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 could	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 could	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 shudder	aux
48	only	only	ADV	_	49 shudder	advmod
49	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 saying	ccomp
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 shudder	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	49 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bring up	past · passive		the gold	then		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	celebrate	past · passive		the wedding		the young King obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	love	past	King	King's wife		dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
4	is	past	King			happy property	tree rules
5	keep	participle	King not said here		still		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: express	gerund	King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	shudder in a quote	could					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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