The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 21
“Who’s there?” he called out, but the figure gave no answer, and neither stirred nor moved.
Who acts: friend, figure · What happens: call out, give, stir, move · To what, where: answer
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, figure), 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 | _ | 8 called | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | parataxis |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ’s | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 figure | det |
| 13 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 answer | det |
| 16 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stirred | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stirred | cc |
| 19 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 20 stirred | advmod |
| 20 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 gave | conj |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 moved | cc |
| 22 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 stirred | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | friend | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | past | the figure | no answer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stir | participle | the figure not said here | neither property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | move | participle | the figure not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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