The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 65

Those fellows up there never opened their mouths, and were so stupid that they let those few old tatters they have on their bodies burn.”

Who acts: fellows, mouths, bodies · What happens: not open, be, let, have, burn · To what, where: mouths, few old tatters

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 (fellows, mouths, bodies), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 fellows	det
2	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opened	nsubj
3	up	up	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 fellows	advmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 opened	advmod
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouths	nmod:poss
8	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 opened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stupid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stupid	cc
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stupid	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 stupid	advmod
13	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 opened	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 let	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stupid	advcl
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 tatters	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tatters	amod
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tatters	amod
20	tatters	tatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 let	obj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 tatters	acl:relcl
23	on	on	SCONJ	_	26 burn	mark
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 bodies	nmod:poss
25	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 burn	nsubj
26	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 have	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stupid	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not open	past	that fellows	dollars's mouths		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
2	is	past			stupid property	tree rules
3	let	present	mouths = mouth	that few old tatters		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tatter=Theme
4	have	present	mouths = mouth	that few old tatters not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tatter=Patient
5	burn	present	mouths's bodies			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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