The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 183
Then her maid said: “I’ll help you; we’ll soon make him shudder.”
Who acts: maid, we · What happens: say, help, 'll, make · To what, where: you, maid · 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 (maid, we), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 maid | nmod:poss |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 help | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 help | aux |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 help | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’ll | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’ll | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 make | advmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | wife's maid | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | future | wife's maid = maid | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | 'll in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | wife's maid not said here | maid | soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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