The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 19
“Now, my friend, I’ll teach you to shudder,” thought he.
Who acts: friend · What happens: teach, think · To what, where: shudder, you, friend · 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 (friend), 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 | _ | 9 teach | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 teach | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teach | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | nsubj |
| 8 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 teach | aux |
| 9 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 teach | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 shudder | mark |
| 12 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 teach | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 teach | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 teach | punct |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | future | my friend | shudder | you | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | friend | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
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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