The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 12

Then all at once he thought he had heard one of the old men say that the Land of Souls lay to the south, and so, filled with new hope and courage, he set his face southwards.

Who acts: thing, old men, Land · What happens: think, hear, say, lay, fill, set · To what, where: all, one, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, old men, Land), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 thought	obl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 all	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 heard	obj
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 say	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 one	advcl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Land	det
18	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Souls	case
20	Souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Land	nmod
21	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 south	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 south	det
24	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 filled	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 filled	cc
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 filled	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 filled	punct
29	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 heard	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 hope	case
31	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hope	amod
32	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 courage	cc
34	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hope	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 set	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 set	nsubj
37	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 face	nmod:poss
39	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 set	obj
40	southwards	southwards	ADV	_	37 set	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	thing	all		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	hear	past · perfect	thing	one		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	the old men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lay	present	the Land of Souls		to the south	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	fill	participle	thing not said here		with new hope and courage	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hope=Instrument
6	set	past	thing	thing's face	southwards property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient face=Result

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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