The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 44
“Oh!” groaned the father, “you’ll bring me nothing but misfortune; get out of my sight, I won’t have anything more to do with you.”
Who acts: you, Father, my · What happens: groan, bring, get out, not have, do, sight · To what, where: father, nothing, sight, anything
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 (you, Father, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 groaned | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 father | det |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groaned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 bring | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bring | aux |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 groaned | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 bring | obj |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 misfortune | cc |
| 16 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sight | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sight | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 have | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 have | nsubj |
| 25 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 26 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 have | advmod |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 groaned | conj |
| 28 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 27 have | obj |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 anything | amod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 more | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 do | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | groan | past | the father | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | future | you | nothing | Father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | get out in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my sight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | future | Father | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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