The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 74

“Oh!” said the youth, “I would give worlds to shudder, but no one can teach me.”

Who acts: youth, one · What happens: say, give, teach · To what, where: worlds, shudder, youth · 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 (youth, one), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	worlds	world	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 give	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 shudder	case
15	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 teach	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 teach	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teach	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 teach	aux
21	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 teach	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youth			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	would	the youth = youth	worlds	shudder	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent world=Theme to shudder=Recipient
3	teach speech: other in a quote	can	no one		the youth = youth	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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