The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 8

Now it happened that his father said to him one day: “Hearken, you there in the corner; you are growing big and strong, and you must learn to earn your own bread.

Who acts: it, father, way · What happens: happen, say, hearken, grow, learn, earn · To what, where: way, corner, own bread · 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 (it, father, way), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl:unmarked
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Hearken	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Hearken	punct
14	Hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 you	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 Hearken	obl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Hearken	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 corner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corner	det
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Hearken	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 growing	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 growing	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 growing	aux
24	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 happened	conj
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 growing	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 strong	cc
27	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 big	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 learn	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 learn	cc
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 learn	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 learn	aux
32	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happened	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 earn	mark
34	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 learn	xcomp
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 bread	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bread	amod
37	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 earn	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	father's father		way		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	hearken in a quote	infinitive	father's father not said here	way		the corner; there			tree rules
4	grow in a quote	present · progressive	way					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	learn in a quote	must	way						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	earn in a quote	to-infinitive	way not said here	your own bread					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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