The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 84

So the youth went to the King and spoke: “If I were allowed, I should much like to watch for three nights in the castle.”

Who acts: youth · What happens: go, speak, allow, like, watch · To what, where: youth, castle · 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 (youth), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spoke	cc
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	15 allowed	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 allowed	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 allowed	aux:pass
15	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 like	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 allowed	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	much	much	ADV	_	20 like	advmod
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 spoke	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 watch	mark
22	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 like	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 nights	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 nights	nummod
25	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 watch	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 castle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castle	det
28	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 watch	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the youth				to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	speak speech: other	past	the youth not said here					tree rules
3	allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · passive		the youth = youth				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
4	like in a quote	should	the youth = youth					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	watch not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the youth = youth not said here		the castle	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=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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