The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 50

Just at this moment a man came by who heard the youth speaking to himself, and when they had gone on a bit and were in sight of the gallows the man said to him: “Look! there is the tree where seven people have been hanged, and are now learning to fly; sit down under it and wait till nightfall, and then you’ll pretty soon learn to shudder.”

Who acts: man, youth, dollars, father, tree · What happens: come, hear, speak, go, be, say · To what, where: youth, man, bit, sight, gallows, 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 (man, youth, dollars, father), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Look	advcl
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 youth	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 speaking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gone	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 gone	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 gone	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	aux
21	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 came	parataxis
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 bit	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bit	det
24	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sight	cc
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sight	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 sight	case
28	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gone	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 gallows	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gallows	det
31	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sight	nmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 man	det
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gallows	acl:relcl
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 said	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 Look	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 Look	punct
39	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 Look	punct
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 is	expl
42	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 Look	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 tree	det
44	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 is	nsubj
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 hanged	advmod
46	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 people	nummod
47	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 hanged	nsubj:pass
48	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 hanged	aux
49	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 hanged	aux:pass
50	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 tree	acl:relcl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 learning	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 learning	cc
53	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 learning	aux
54	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	55 learning	advmod
55	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 hanged	conj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 fly	mark
57	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 learning	xcomp
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	59 sit	punct
59	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 Look	conj
60	down	down	ADP	_	59 sit	compound:prt
61	under	under	ADP	_	62 it	case
62	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 sit	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 wait	cc
64	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	59 sit	conj
65	till	till	ADP	_	66 nightfall	case
66	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 wait	obl
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 ’ll	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 ’ll	cc
69	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	71 ’ll	advmod
70	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	71 ’ll	nsubj
71	’ll	'll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	74 learn	advcl
72	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	71 ’ll	advmod
73	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	74 learn	advmod
74	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 Look	parataxis
75	to	to	PART	_	76 shudder	mark
76	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 learn	xcomp
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 Look	punct
78	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a man				moment		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past		the youth					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	gerund	the youth not said here		man				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to himself=Co-Agent
4	go	past · perfect	dollars = dollar			a bit			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bit=Location
5	is	past	dollars = dollar not said here			sight		of the gallows	tree rules
6	say speech: express	past	the man	the gallows not said here	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gallows=Topic to he=Recipient
7	look in a quote	imperative	father not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	be in a quote	present	the tree			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	hange in a quote	present · perfect · passive		seven people					tree rules
10	learn in a quote	present · progressive					now		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	fly in a quote	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	sit down in a quote	infinitive	father not said here			tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under it=Location
13	wait in a quote	infinitive	father not said here				till nightfall		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
14	'll in a quote	present	father				then	pretty property	tree rules
15	learn in a quote	present		shudder				soon property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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