The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 26

The sexton thought: “He can’t mean that in earnest,” so gave forth no sound, and stood as though he were made of stone.

Who acts: sexton, earnest · What happens: think, not mean, give, stand, make · To what, where: sound, sexton · 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 (sexton, earnest), 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 sexton	det
2	sexton	sexton	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 mean	punct
6	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mean	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 thought	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 gave	mark
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 earnest	case
12	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 gave	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 earnest	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 earnest	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mean	ccomp
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 gave	advmod
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 sound	det
19	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
23	as	as	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 made	aux:pass
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stood	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 stone	case
29	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the sexton			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not mean in a quote	can	sexton			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	past	earnest	no sound	forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
4	stand	past	the sexton not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past · passive		sexton	of stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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