The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 61
Then he got angry, and said: “If you aren’t careful yourselves, then I can’t help you, and I don’t mean to burn with you”; and he hung them up again in a row.
Who acts: man, you · What happens: get, say, not be, not help, not mean, burn · To what, where: you, rags, row · 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, you), 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 | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 careful | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 careful | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 careful | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 careful | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 careful | cop |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 careful | advmod |
| 14 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 careful | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 help | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 help | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 help | nsubj |
| 19 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 help | aux |
| 20 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 help | advmod |
| 21 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 careful | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 help | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 mean | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mean | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 mean | nsubj |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mean | aux |
| 27 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 mean | advmod |
| 28 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 help | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 burn | mark |
| 30 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 mean | xcomp |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 burn | obl |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 burn | punct |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 hung | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hung | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hung | nsubj |
| 37 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hung | obj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 hung | compound:prt |
| 40 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 hung | advmod |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 row | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 row | det |
| 43 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hung | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | man | then | angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help in a quote | can | man | you | then | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | not mean in a quote | present · do-support | man | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | burn not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | with you | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with you=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hang up | past | man | rags = rag | a row | again | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in row=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/61/