The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 106

The old man said he had not gone to sleep all night for going through the book, but there was not a word about the Blue Mountains in it.

Who acts: old man, Irishman · What happens: say, not go, sleep, go, be · To what, where: book, word · 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 (old man, Irishman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 gone	advmod
8	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gone	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obl:unmarked
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sleep	advcl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 book	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 was	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 was	cc
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 was	expl
21	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 word	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 word	det
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 was	obl
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 Mountains	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Mountains	det
27	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mountains	compound
28	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 word	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 Mountains	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not go	past · perfect	Irishman				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here			night	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	gerund	Irishman not said here		the book		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through book=Initial_Location
5	be	past	the old man not said here	a word about the Blue Mountains in book	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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