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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 landlord | det |
| 4 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 peace | det |
| 6 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 told | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | iobj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 stood | mark |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 neighborhood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighborhood | det |
| 14 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 17 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 castle | amod |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 learn | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 learn | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 learn | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | aux |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 24 learn | advmod |
| 24 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 castle | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 shudder | mark |
| 26 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 learn | obj |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 kept | mark |
| 28 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kept | nsubj |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 kept | advmod |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 learn | advcl |
| 31 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kept | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kept | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 nights | case |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 nights | nummod |
| 36 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 kept | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | body | the landlord | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent landlord=Theme peace=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | body | father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | body not said here | a haunted castle | the neighborhood | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in neighborhood=Destination | |||
| 4 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | learn | could | one | shudder | easily property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic | |||
| 6 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past | one | watch | landlord | night | vn 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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