The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 111

So he blew the whistle, and the Irishman did not know where on earth he was until he found himself at the other old man’s door, who also told him that it was three hundred years since he had seen anyone, and asked him where he was going.

Who acts: brother, Irishman, door, whistle · What happens: blow, not know, be, tell, see, ask · To what, where: whistle, earth, door, brother, hundred years, anyone · 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 (brother, Irishman, door, whistle), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 blew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whistle	det
5	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 know	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Irishman	det
9	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 know	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blew	conj
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 know	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 earth	case
15	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 know	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 found	cop
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	20 found	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 earth	acl:relcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 found	obj
22	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 door	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 man	case
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 told	nsubj
31	also	also	ADV	_	32 told	advmod
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 door	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 years	mark
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 years	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 years	cop
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 hundred	compound
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 told	obl
40	since	since	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 seen	nsubj
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 years	advcl
44	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	43 seen	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 asked	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 asked	cc
47	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 asked	iobj
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 going	advmod
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 going	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 going	aux
52	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 asked	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	past	brother	the whistle				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	not know	past · do-support	the Irishman			earth		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	brother	earth not said here		the other old man's door	find property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	the other old man's door		brother			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a	past	whistle	hundred years				tree rules
6	see	past · perfect	Irishman	anyone				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Stimulus
7	ask speech: ask	past	brother not said here		brother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	go	past · progressive	Irishman					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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