The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 45
“Yes, father, willingly; only wait till daylight, then I’ll set out and learn to shudder, and in that way I shall be master of an art which will gain me a living.”
Who acts: you, Father, master · What happens: wait, set out, learn, be, gain · To what, where: shudder, master, way, living, Father
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, master), 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 | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 willingly | punct |
| 6 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 4 father | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 wait | advmod |
| 9 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 daylight | case |
| 11 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 set | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 set | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | 'll | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wait | parataxis |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 learn | cc |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 shudder | mark |
| 21 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learn | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 master | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 master | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 way | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 way | det |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 master | obl |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 master | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 master | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 master | cop |
| 30 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wait | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 art | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 art | det |
| 33 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 master | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 gain | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 gain | aux |
| 36 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 master | acl:relcl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 gain | obj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 living | det |
| 39 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 gain | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | imperative | you not said here | till daylight | father vocative | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out in a quote | past | Father | then | 'll property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | learn in a quote | infinitive | Father not said here | shudder | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | shall | Father | master | that way | of a art | tree rules | ||
| 5 | gain in a quote | future | master | a living | Father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary living=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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