The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 23
But the sexton remained motionless, so that the youth might think that it was a ghost.
Who acts: sexton, youth · What happens: remain, think, be · To what, where: ghost
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 (sexton, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 remained | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sexton | det |
| 3 | sexton | sexton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remained | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 think | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 think | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 think | aux |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remained | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 ghost | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ghost | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ghost | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ghost | det |
| 17 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 think | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the sexton | motionless property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | might | the youth | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | youth | a ghost | tree rules |
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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