The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 216
When a year had passed a beautiful son was born to her, and she thought no more of the little man, till all of a sudden one day he stepped into her room and said: “Now give me what you promised.”
Who acts: year, daughter, man, you · What happens: pass, bear, think, step, say, give · To what, where: beautiful son, daughter, more, room, man · 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 (year, daughter, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 passed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 born | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 more | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 thought | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 more | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 all | punct |
| 24 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 all | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 stepped | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 28 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 day | compound |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 all | nmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stepped | nsubj |
| 32 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thought | parataxis |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 room | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 room | nmod:poss |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stepped | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stepped | conj |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 give | punct |
| 40 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 give | advmod |
| 41 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 said | ccomp |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 give | iobj |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 promised | obj |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 promised | nsubj |
| 45 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 give | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | a year | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | a beautiful son | daughter | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | daughter | no more | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 4 | step | past | man | daughter's room | till all | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | infinitive | man | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 7 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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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