The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 38
The father was horrified, hurried to the youth, and gave him a scolding.
What happens: horrify, hurry, give · To what, where: father, youth, scolding
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: 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 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horrified | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | aux:pass |
| 4 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurried | punct |
| 6 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horrified | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurried | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 horrified | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scolding | det |
| 15 | scolding | scolding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | the father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hurry | participle | the youth | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to youth=Destination | |||||
| 3 | give | past | a scolding | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient scolding=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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