The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 53

Then the youth went to the gallows-tree and sat down underneath it, and waited for the evening; and because he felt cold he lit himself a fire.

Who acts: youth, man · What happens: go, sit down, wait, feel, light · To what, where: gallows, tree, man

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 (youth, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 gallows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gallows	det
7	gallows	gallows	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 tree	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gallows	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sat	cc
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waited	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 waited	cc
17	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 evening	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 waited	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 felt	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 felt	cc
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 felt	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 felt	nsubj
25	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
26	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 felt	xcomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lit	nsubj
28	lit	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 felt	ccomp
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 lit	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fire	det
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lit	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth		the gallows and tree	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallows=Initial_Location
2	sit down	past	the youth not said here		tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath it=Location
3	wait	past	the youth not said here			evening		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	feel	past	man				cold property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	light	past	man	man				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary fire=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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