The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 33

He spoke to the boy, and asked him why he was so unhappy; and the boy told him how he had sworn to bring the Terrible Head, and knew not how to begin to set about the adventure.

Who acts: man, boy · What happens: speak, ask, be, tell, swear, bring · To what, where: man, Terrible Head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boy), 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 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 boy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 unhappy	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 unhappy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 unhappy	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 unhappy	advmod
14	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 asked	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 sworn	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sworn	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sworn	aux
24	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 told	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 bring	mark
26	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 sworn	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Head	det
28	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Head	amod
29	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bring	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knew	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knew	cc
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 knew	advmod
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 begin	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 begin	mark
36	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 knew	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 set	mark
38	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 begin	xcomp
39	about	about	ADP	_	41 adventure	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 adventure	det
41	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	man			to the boy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to boy=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	man			unhappy property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	the boy		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	swear	past · perfect	man				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	bring	to-infinitive	man not said here	the Terrible Head			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme
7	not know	past					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	begin	to-infinitive					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	set	to-infinitive				about the adventure	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent about adventure=Destination

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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