The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 75

“Stuff and nonsense!” spoke the carrier; “come along with me, and I’ll soon put that right.”

Who acts: Stuff · What happens: speak, come along, put · To what, where: carrier, right · 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 (Stuff), 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	_	2 Stuff	punct
2	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nonsense	cc
4	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stuff	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Stuff	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Stuff	punct
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 carrier	det
9	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 spoke	parataxis
13	along	along	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 put	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 put	nsubj
19	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 put	aux
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 come	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 right	det
23	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spoke	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Stuff and nonsense	the carrier		tree rules
2	come along in a quote	infinitive			with Stuff and nonsense = stuff; along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put in a quote	future	Stuff and nonsense = stuff	that right	soon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent right=Goal

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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