The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 20

He stole forth secretly in front, and when the youth was up above, and had turned round to grasp the bell-rope, he saw, standing opposite the hole of the belfry, a white figure.

Who acts: friend, youth · What happens: steal, be, turn round, grasp, see, stand · To what, where: front, bell rope, hole

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, youth), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 front	case
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 above	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 above	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 above	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youth	det
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 above	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 above	cop
13	up	up	ADV	_	14 above	advmod
14	above	above	ADV	_	2 stole	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turned	cc
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 turned	aux
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stole	parataxis
19	round	round	ADV	_	18 turned	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grasp	mark
21	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 turned	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rope	det
23	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rope	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 bell	punct
25	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grasp	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saw	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 saw	nsubj
28	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stole	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 standing	punct
30	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 saw	advcl
31	opposite	opposite	ADP	_	33 hole	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hole	det
33	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 standing	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 belfry	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 belfry	det
36	belfry	belfry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hole	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 figure	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 figure	det
39	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 figure	amod
40	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hole	appos
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	steal	past	friend		front	forth, secretly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
2	is	past	the youth			above property	tree rules
3	turn round	past · perfect				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	grasp	to-infinitive		the bell rope			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Stimulus
5	see	past	friend				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	stand	gerund	friend not said here		the hole of the belfry		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite hole=Location

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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