The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 107

‘But I’ll tell you what,’ he said, ‘if there is such a place on earth at all, I have a brother who lives nine hundred miles from here, and he is sure to know where they are, if anyone in this world does.’

Who acts: I, Irishman, brother, miles, anyone · What happens: tell, say, be, have, live, know · To what, where: you, place, earth, brother, hundred miles · 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, brother, miles), 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 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 tell	nsubj
4	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 place	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 is	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 place	cop
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 place	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
20	on	on	ADP	_	21 earth	case
21	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 place	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 all	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 place	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
26	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 brother	det
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lives	nsubj
30	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 brother	acl:relcl
31	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hundred	compound
32	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 miles	nummod
33	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lives	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 here	case
35	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 lives	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 sure	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 sure	cop
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 have	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 know	mark
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	xcomp
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 know	ccomp
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 where	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 where	cop
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 does	mark
48	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	52 does	nsubj
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 world	case
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 world	det
51	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 anyone	nmod
52	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 know	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	Irishman					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present		such place		earth	at all	tree rules
4	have	present	I	a brother				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
5	live	present	a brother	hundred miles				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mile=Location
6	is	present	Irishman				sure property	tree rules
7	know	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	present	miles = mile				where property	tree rules
9	do a condition, not said to happen	present	anyone					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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