The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 5
“They are always saying it makes one shudder! it makes one shudder!
Who acts: listeners, youngest · What happens: say, make · To what, where: one shudder · 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 (listeners, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 saying | advmod |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 makes | csubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 makes | nsubj |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shudder | nummod |
| 9 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 shudder | nummod |
| 14 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | listeners = listener | always property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | youngest = young | one shudder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shudder=Product | ||||
| 3 | make in a quote | present | youngest = young | one shudder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material shudder=Product |
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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