The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 77

Then, just as he was entering the room, he said again, quite aloud: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

Who acts: carrier · What happens: enter, say, shudder · To what, where: room · 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 (carrier), 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	7 entering	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	7 entering	advmod
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 entering	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 entering	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entering	aux
7	entering	enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entering	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 entering	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 aloud	punct
15	quite	quite	ADV	_	16 aloud	advmod
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	12 said	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 shudder	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 shudder	punct
19	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	23 could	discourse
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Oh	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 shudder	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 shudder	advmod
25	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	parataxis
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 shudder	punct
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 shudder	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 shudder	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 shudder	aux
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 shudder	advmod
31	shudder	shudder	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 shudder	conj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 shudder	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 shudder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past · progressive	carrier	the room	then		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	say speech: express	past	carrier		again	aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shudder a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	carrier				tree rules

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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