The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 112

‘I am going to see if I can find anyone that can tell me where the Blue Mountains are,’ he said.

Who acts: I, Blue Mountains, Irishman · What happens: go, see, find, tell, be, say · To what, where: anyone, me · 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, Blue Mountains, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 find	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 find	aux
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	ccomp
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 find	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tell	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anyone	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 tell	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Mountains	det
18	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Mountains	compound
19	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 where	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 where	cop
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	I				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find a condition, not said to happen	can	I	anyone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	can			me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	is	present	the Blue Mountains			where property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	past	Irishman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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