The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 43
I didn’t know who it was, and warned him three times to speak or begone.”
Who acts: I, harm · What happens: not know, be, warn, speak, begone · To what, where: father · 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 (I, harm), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 know | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 who | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 who | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 warned | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warned | cc |
| 10 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 warned | obj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 warned | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 speak | mark |
| 15 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 warned | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 begone | cc |
| 17 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 speak | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | harm | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | past | I not said here | father | time | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | begone | infinitive | 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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