The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 39

Yet, somehow, he could never tell why, he looked up and saw the tavern in front of him, which he thought was miles, and miles, and miles away.

Who acts: Father, tavern · What happens: not tell, look up, see, think, be · To what, where: miles, tavern, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, tavern), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yet	punct
3	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 somehow	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tell	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looked	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looked	nsubj
12	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 looked	compound:prt
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 looked	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tavern	det
17	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 front	case
19	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tavern	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 front	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 thought	nsubj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tavern	acl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 miles	cop
27	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thought	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 miles	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 miles	cc
30	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 away	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 away	cc
33	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 away	obl:unmarked
34	away	away	ADV	_	8 tell	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	could	Father	miles		away, somehow property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look up	past	Father				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	past	Father not said here	the tavern	front of Father		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tavern=Stimulus
4	think speech: other	past	the tavern				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		miles			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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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