The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 229

“Some demon has told you that! some demon has told you that!” screamed the little man, and in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands and tore himself in two.

Who acts: little man, foot, demon · What happens: tell, scream, drive, sink, seize, tore · To what, where: demon, you, right foot, rage, waist, left foot · 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 (little man, foot, demon), 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	_	5 told	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 demon	det
3	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 you	nmod:unmarked
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 demon	det
10	demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 screamed	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 you	nmod:unmarked
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
17	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 screamed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 drove	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 drove	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 rage	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rage	nmod:poss
25	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drove	obl
26	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 foot	nmod:poss
28	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 foot	amod
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 drove	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 far	advmod
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 drove	advmod
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 far	obl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 sank	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sank	nsubj
37	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 drove	advcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	42 waist	case
39	up	up	ADP	_	42 waist	case
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 waist	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 waist	nmod:poss
42	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sank	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 seized	punct
44	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 seized	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 passion	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 passion	det
47	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seized	obl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seized	nsubj
49	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 foot	det
51	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 foot	amod
52	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 seized	obj
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 hands	case
54	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	55 hands	det
55	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 seized	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 tore	cc
57	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 seized	conj
58	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 tore	obj
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 two	case
60	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 tore	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		some demon	you				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present · perfect · passive		some demon	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
3	scream speech: express	past	the little man						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drive	past		demon's right foot		demon's rage		far property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in rage=Destination
5	sink	past	foot			demon's waist			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	seize	past	demon	the left foot		a passion	then	with both hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
7	tore	past	demon not said here	man		two			tree rules
8	rage		demon						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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