The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 67

The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

Who acts: youth · What happens: go, begin, murmur · To what, where: way, 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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 way	nmod:poss
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 began	cc
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 murmur	mark
12	murmur	murmur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 murmur	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 shudder	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 shudder	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	21 could	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 could	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 could	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 shudder	aux
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 shudder	advmod
23	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 could	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 could	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 could	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 could	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 shudder	aux
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 shudder	advmod
29	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	parataxis
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	29 shudder	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the youth		man's way	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	begin	past	the youth not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	murmur speech: other	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	man		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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