The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 24
The youth called out the second time: “What do you want here?
Who acts: youth · What happens: call out, want · To what, where: second time · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 youth | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 want | obj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 want | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 want | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | participle | the youth not said here | the second time | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present · do-support | the youth | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot 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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