The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 78

The landlord, who heard this, laughed and said: “If that’s what you’re sighing for, you shall be given every opportunity here.”

Who acts: landlord, that, you · What happens: hear, laugh, say, be, sigh, give · To what, where: this, you · 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 (landlord, that, you), 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 landlord	det
2	landlord	landlord	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laughed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 landlord	acl:relcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laughed	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 what	punct
13	If	if	SCONJ	_	16 what	mark
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 what	nsubj
15	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 said	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 ’re	nsubj
18	’re	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
19	sighing	sigh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 ’re	xcomp
20	for	for	ADP	_	19 sighing	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 given	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 given	nsubj:pass
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 given	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 given	aux:pass
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 laughed	conj
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 opportunity	det
27	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obj
28	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 given	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the landlord	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	laugh	past	the landlord			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the landlord not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	that			tree rules
5	does in a quote	present	you			tree rules
6	sigh in a quote	gerund	you not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give in a quote	shall · passive		you	here	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient opportunity=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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