The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 3

Now when there was anything to be done, the eldest had always to do it; but if something was required later or in the night-time, and the way led through the churchyard or some such ghostly place, he always replied: “Oh! no, father: nothing will induce me to go there, it makes me shudder!” for he was afraid.

Who acts: way, eldest, nothing, burden, father · What happens: do, have, require, lead, be, induce · To what, where: burden, something, churchyard, way · 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 (way, eldest, nothing, burden), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 was	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 was	advmod
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 replied	cop
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 was	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 done	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux:pass
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 anything	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eldest	det
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	conj
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 do	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 replied	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	46 replied	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 required	mark
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 required	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 required	aux:pass
22	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 replied	advcl
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 required	advmod
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 time	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 time	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 time	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 night	punct
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 later	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 led	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 led	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 led	nsubj
34	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 required	conj
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 churchyard	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 churchyard	det
37	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 led	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 place	cc
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	42 place	det
40	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 place	amod
41	ghostly	ghostly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 place	amod
42	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 churchyard	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 required	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 replied	nsubj
45	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	46 replied	advmod
46	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 father	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	53 father	punct
49	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	53 father	discourse
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	49 Oh	punct
51	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	49 Oh	discourse
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 Oh	punct
53	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 replied	parataxis
54	:	:	PUNCT	_	57 induce	punct
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	57 induce	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 induce	aux
57	induce	induce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 father	appos
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 induce	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 go	mark
60	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 induce	xcomp
61	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	60 go	advmod
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 makes	punct
63	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 makes	nsubj
64	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 induce	parataxis
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 makes	obj
66	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 makes	xcomp
67	!	!	PUNCT	_	57 induce	punct
68	”	"	PUNCT	_	53 father	punct
69	for	for	SCONJ	_	72 afraid	mark
70	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	72 afraid	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 afraid	cop
72	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 replied	advcl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive · passive	way not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»
2	have	past	the eldest				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the eldest not said here	burden		always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	require a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		something		late property	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition
5	lead	past	the way		the churchyard or some such ghostly place		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent through churchyard=Destination
6	be speech: assert	past	way			always, reply property	tree rules
7	induce in a quote	future	nothing	way			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result
8	go in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	make in a quote	present	burden	way			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material i=Product
10	is	past	father			afraid property	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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