The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 108

The Irishman answered that he could never go these nine hundred miles, for his horse was giving in already.

Who acts: Irishman, horse · What happens: answer, not go, give · To what, where: 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 (Irishman, horse), 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	2 Irishman	det
2	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 miles	det
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 miles	nummod
12	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 go	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 giving	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 giving	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 horse	nmod:poss
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 giving	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 giving	aux
18	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 go	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 already	case
20	already	already	ADV	_	18 giving	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the Irishman		tree rules
2	not go	could	Irishman	this hundred miles	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	past · progressive	Irishman's horse		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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