The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 8

He remembered having heard from the old, old people of the tribe, that there was a path that led to the Land of Souls--that if you sought carefully you could find it.

Who acts: light, having, path, you · What happens: remember, have, hear, be, lead, seek · To what, where: path

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 (light, having, path, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembered	nsubj
2	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 path	csubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 having	xcomp
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 people	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heard	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tribe	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tribe	det
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 was	mark
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 path	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 path	det
19	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 remembered	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 led	nsubj
21	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 path	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Land	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Land	det
24	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 led	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Souls	case
26	Souls	soul	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 Land	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 find	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 find	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 sought	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 sought	nsubj
31	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 find	advcl
32	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	31 sought	advmod
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembered	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	past	light			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	have	gerund				tree rules
3	hear	participle			from the old old people of the tribe	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from people=Source
4	is a	past	having	a path		tree rules
5	lead	past	a path		to the Land of Souls	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=Patient
6	seek a condition, not said to happen	past	you		carefully property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	find	could	you	path		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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