The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 206

The girl didn’t know what to do, and began to cry; then the door opened as before, and the tiny little man appeared and said: “What’ll you give me if I spin the straw into gold for you?”

Who acts: girl, door, tiny little man, you · What happens: not know, do, begin, cry, open, appear · To what, where: door, straw, gold · 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 (girl, door, tiny little man, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cry	mark
13	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 opened	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj
18	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	parataxis
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 before	case
20	before	before	ADV	_	18 opened	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 appeared	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 appeared	nsubj
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
32	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 give	obj
33	’ll	'll	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 give	aux
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 give	nsubj
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 spin	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 spin	nsubj
39	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 give	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 straw	det
41	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spin	obj
42	into	into	ADP	_	43 gold	case
43	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spin	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 spin	obl
46	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
47	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the girl						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	begin	past	the girl not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	the girl not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	open	past	the door				then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	appear	past	the tiny little man						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: ask	past	the door not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	give in a quote	present	you		the door = door				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Theme
9	spin a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the door = door	the straw		gold		for you	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent straw=Material into gold=Product for you=Beneficiary

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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