The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 86
Then he answered: “Well, I shall beg for a fire, a turning lathe, and a carving bench with the knife attached.”
Who acts: King · What happens: answer, beg, turn, carve, attach · To what, where: carving bench · 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 (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 answered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 beg | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | aux |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beg | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lathe | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lathe | det |
| 16 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 lathe | amod |
| 17 | lathe | lathe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fire | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 attached | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 attached | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bench | det |
| 21 | carving | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 bench | amod |
| 22 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 knife | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 knife | det |
| 25 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bench | nmod |
| 26 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 beg | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 attached | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | King | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | shall | King | for a fire and a turning lathe | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for fire=Topic | ||||
| 3 | turn in a quote | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | carve in a quote | gerund | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | attach in a quote | participle · passive | a carving bench with the knife | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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