The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 37

The boy answered that he knew not where such things were to be procured, and that, wanting them, he could only try and fail.

Who acts: boy, that · What happens: answer, not know, procure, want, try, fail · To what, where: such things, things · 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 (boy, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 knew	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	ccomp
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 knew	advmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 procured	advmod
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 procured	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 procured	aux
12	to	to	PART	_	14 procured	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 procured	aux:pass
14	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 knew	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanting	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanting	cc
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 wanting	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanting	punct
19	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 answered	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanting	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 try	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 try	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 try	aux
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 try	advmod
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fail	cc
27	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 try	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the boy		tree rules
2	not know	past	boy		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	procure	past · passive		such things	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	want	gerund	that	things = thing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
5	try	could	boy		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	fail	infinitive	boy not said here		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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