The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 27

Then the youth shouted out to him the third time, and as that too had no effect, he made a dash at the spectre and knocked it down the stairs, so that it fell about ten steps and remained lying in a corner.

Who acts: youth, that, sexton, dash · What happens: shout out, have, make, knock down, fall about, remain · To what, where: sexton, effect, dash, spectre, ten steps, corner

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, that, sexton, dash), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 shouted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 shouted	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shouted	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 made	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 had	nsubj
15	too	too	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	advcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 effect	det
18	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouted	conj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 dash	det
23	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 spectre	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 spectre	det
26	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knocked	cc
28	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shouted	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knocked	obj
30	down	down	ADP	_	28 knocked	compound:prt
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stairs	det
32	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 knocked	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 fell	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 knocked	parataxis
38	about	about	ADV	_	39 ten	advmod
39	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 steps	nummod
40	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 fell	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 remained	cc
42	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fell	conj
43	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 remained	xcomp
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 corner	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 corner	det
46	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lying	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	shout out speech: express	past	the youth		sexton		then; time	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	have	past	that	no effect				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
3	make	past	sexton	a dash		the spectre		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dash=Product
4	knock down	past	the youth not said here	dash				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination stair=Theme
5	fall about	past	dash	ten steps				vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient step=Result
6	remain	past	dash not said here					tree rules
7	lie	gerund	dash not said here			a corner		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location

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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