The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 102

‘I have been going about for the last three years,’ said the Irishman, ‘to see if I could find anyone who can tell me where the Blue Mountains are.’

Who acts: I, Irishman, Blue Mountains · What happens: go about, say, see, find, tell, be · To what, where: anyone, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Irishman, Blue Mountains), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	11 years	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 years	amod
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Irishman	det
16	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 find	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 see	ccomp
25	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 find	obj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 tell	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 anyone	acl:relcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 tell	ccomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Mountains	det
32	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Mountains	compound
33	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 where	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 where	cop
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go about	present · perfect · progressive	I			year	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Irishman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	find a condition, not said to happen	could	I	anyone				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	can			me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is	present	the Blue Mountains				where property	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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