The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 10

But the foolish youth kept repeating, ‘I will go, I will go, I will go!’

Who acts: foolish youth, I · What happens: keep, repeat, go

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish youth, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 youth	amod
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	repeating	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 repeating	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 go	aux
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	the foolish youth	tree rules
2	repeat	gerund	the foolish youth not said here	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go	future	I	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	future	I	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	future	I	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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