The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 97
When the youth heard these words a cold shudder ran over him, for he remembered that his soul was at stake.
Who acts: youth, cold shudder, shudder, soul · What happens: hear, run, remember, be · To what, where: words, stake
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, cold shudder, shudder, soul), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shudder | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shudder | amod |
| 9 | shudder | shudder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | nsubj |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembered | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 remembered | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 remembered | nsubj |
| 16 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ran | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 stake | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 soul | nmod:poss |
| 19 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stake | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stake | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 stake | case |
| 22 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remembered | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the youth | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run | past | a cold shudder | over love | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | remember | past | shudder | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | love's soul | stake | tree rules |
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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