The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 60
But the dead men did not hear and let their rags go on burning.
Who acts: dead men, rags · What happens: not hear, let, go, burn
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 (dead men, rags), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 hear | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hear | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hear | advmod |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hear | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rags | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 let | parataxis |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 burning | mark |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 go | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past · do-support | the dead men | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the dead men not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present | seven's rags | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | burn | gerund | seven's rags not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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