The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 49

When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set out on the hard high road, and kept muttering to himself: “If I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

What happens: break, put, set out, keep, mutter, shudder · To what, where: youth, fifty dollars, pocket, hard high road, 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: 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 broke	advmod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl:unmarked
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 broke	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dollars	det
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 dollars	nummod
9	dollars	dollar	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 pocket	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pocket	nmod:poss
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 set	punct
14	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pocket	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 set	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	20 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 road	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
19	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 set	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
24	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 kept	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 muttering	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 shudder	punct
29	If	if	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shudder	nsubj
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 shudder	advmod
33	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 could	nsubj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 could	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 could	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 could	nsubj
37	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 shudder	aux
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 shudder	advmod
39	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 shudder	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	break	past	the youth			day	tree rules
2	put	infinitive	the fifty dollars		father's pocket		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dollar=Goal
3	set out	participle	father's pocket not said here		the hard high road		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	past					tree rules
5	mutter speech: assert	gerund		father			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
6	shudder in a quote	could					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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