The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 104

I have a book which contains the history of the world, which I shall go through to-night, and if there is such a place as the Blue Mountains in it we shall find it out.’

Who acts: I, book, history, we · What happens: have, contain, go through, be, find out · To what, where: book, history, place

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, book, history, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 contains	nsubj
6	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 book	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 history	det
8	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contains	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 history	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 go	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 go	nsubj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 go	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 go	aux
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 history	conj
17	through	through	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 to	punct
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 place	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 is	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 is	expl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 place	cop
26	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	28 place	det:predet
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	conj
29	as	as	ADP	_	32 Mountains	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Mountains	det
31	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Mountains	compound
32	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 place	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 place	nmod
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 find	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 place	acl:relcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	37 find	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	a book				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
2	contain	present	a book	the history of the world				vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot history=Theme
3	go through	shall	the history of the world			night	through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	I not said here	such place	place		as the Blue Mountains	tree rules
5	find out	shall	we	history				vn learn-14-2-1 «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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