The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 186

Then he awoke and cried out: “Oh! how I shudder, how I shudder, dear wife!

Who acts: fish · What happens: awake, cry out, 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 (fish), 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	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cried	cc
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 cried	compound:prt
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 shudder	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 shudder	punct
9	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 shudder	discourse
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Oh	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 shudder	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 shudder	nsubj
13	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 awoke	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shudder	punct
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 shudder	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 shudder	nsubj
17	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shudder	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wife	punct
19	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wife	amod
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shudder	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	awake	past	fish	then	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry out speech: express	past	fish not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shudder in a quote		fish		tree rules
4	shudder in a quote		fish		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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