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The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 81

He left the landlord no peace till he told him that in the neighborhood stood a haunted castle, where one could easily learn to shudder if one only kept watch in it for three nights.

Who acts: body, one · What happens: leave, tell, stand, haunt, learn, keep · To what, where: landlord, father, haunted castle, neighborhood, shudder, watch · 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 (body, 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

nsubjdetobjdetobjmarknsubjadvcliobjmarkcasedetobladvcldetamodobjpunctadvmodnsubjauxadvmodconjmarkobjmarknsubjadvmodadvclobjcaseoblcasenummodoblpunctrootHePRONleftVERBtheDETlandlordNOUNnoDETpeaceNOUNtillSCONJhePRONtoldVERBhimPRONthatSCONJinADPtheDETneighborhoodNOUNstoodVERBaDEThauntedVERBcastleNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVonePRONcouldAUXeasilyADVlearnVERBtoPARTshudderNOUNifSCONJonePRONonlyADVkeptVERBwatchNOUNinADPitPRONforADPthreeNUMnightsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 leftnsubj
2leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 landlorddet
4landlordlandlordNOUNNumber=Sing2 leftobj
5nonoDETPronType=Neg6 peacedet
6peacepeaceNOUNNumber=Sing2 leftobj
7tilltillSCONJ_9 toldmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 toldnsubj
9toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 leftadvcl
10himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 toldiobj
11thatthatSCONJ_15 stoodmark
12ininADP_14 neighborhoodcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 neighborhooddet
14neighborhoodneighborhoodNOUNNumber=Sing15 stoodobl
15stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 toldadvcl
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 castledet
17hauntedhauntVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 castleamod
18castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing15 stoodobj
19,,PUNCT_24 learnpunct
20wherewhereADVPronType=Rel24 learnadvmod
21oneonePRONNumber=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 learnnsubj
22couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 learnaux
23easilyeasilyADV_24 learnadvmod
24learnlearnVERBVerbForm=Inf18 castleconj
25totoPART_26 shuddermark
26shuddershudderNOUNNumber=Sing24 learnobj
27ififSCONJ_30 keptmark
28oneonePRONNumber=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 keptnsubj
29onlyonlyADV_30 keptadvmod
30keptkeepVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 learnadvcl
31watchwatchNOUNNumber=Sing30 keptobj
32ininADP_33 itcase
33ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 keptobl
34forforADP_36 nightscase
35threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card36 nightsnummod
36nightsnightNOUNNumber=Plur30 keptobl
37..PUNCT_2 leftpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1leavepastbodythe landlordvn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent landlord=Theme peace=Attribute
2tell speech: assertpastbodyfathervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3standpastbody not said herea haunted castlethe neighborhoodvn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in neighborhood=Destination
4hauntparticiplevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5learncouldoneshuddereasily propertyvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic
6keep a condition, not said to happenpastonewatchlandlordnightvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in it=Location

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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