The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 4

Or, when they sat of an evening around the fire telling stories which made one’s flesh creep, the listeners sometimes said: “Oh! it makes one shudder,” the youngest sat in a corner, heard the exclamation, and could not understand what it meant.

Who acts: churchyard, listeners, creep, youngest · What happens: sit, tell, make, say, hear, not understand · To what, where: fire, stories, one flesh creep, one shudder, corner, exclamation · 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 (churchyard, listeners, creep, youngest), 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	Or	or	CCONJ	_	15 made	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Or	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sat	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 evening	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 evening	det
8	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
12	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 telling	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 creep	nummod
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 one	case
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 creep	compound
19	creep	creep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 listeners	det
22	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 said	nsubj
23	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 said	advmod
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 made	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 makes	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 makes	punct
27	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	30 makes	discourse
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 Oh	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 makes	nsubj
30	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 shudder	nummod
32	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 makes	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 makes	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 makes	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youngest	det
36	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 sat	nsubj
37	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 makes	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 corner	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 corner	det
40	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sat	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 heard	punct
42	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sat	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 exclamation	det
44	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heard	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 understand	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 understand	cc
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 understand	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 understand	advmod
49	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 heard	parataxis
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 meant	obj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 meant	nsubj
52	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 understand	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	churchyard		the fire	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around fire=Location
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	churchyard not said here	stories				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
3	make	past		one flesh creep				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset creep=Product
4	say speech: express	past	the listeners				sometimes property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	make in a quote	present	creep	one shudder				tree rules
6	sit	past	the youngest		a corner			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location
7	hear	past	the youngest not said here	the exclamation				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer exclamation=Stimulus
8	not understand	could						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	mean	past	creep					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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