The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 2

So much so that those who saw him exclaimed: “What a burden he’ll be to his father!”

Who acts: those, burden · What happens: see, exclaim, be · To what, where: father · 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 (those, burden), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	9 exclaimed	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 exclaimed	mark
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 exclaimed	mark
5	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 exclaimed	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 those	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	obj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 father	punct
12	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 burden	det
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 burden	det
14	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 father	nsubj
16	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 father	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 father	cop
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	parataxis
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 father	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past		father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	exclaim speech: express	past	those			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	future	what burden		to father's father	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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