The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 113

‘If you will stay with me to-night,’ said the old man, ‘I have a book of the history of the world, and I shall know where they are before daylight, if there is such a place in it at all.’

Who acts: you, old man, I, men, place · What happens: stay, say, have, know, be · To what, where: book · 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 (you, old man, I, men), 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 stay	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 stay	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 stay	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 book	det
22	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 history	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 history	det
25	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 book	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 world	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 world	det
28	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 history	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 know	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 know	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 know	aux
33	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 have	parataxis
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 daylight	advmod
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 daylight	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 daylight	cop
37	before	before	ADP	_	38 daylight	case
38	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 know	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	42 is	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 is	expl
42	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 know	conj
43	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	45 place	det:predet
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 place	det
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 is	nsubj
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 place	nmod
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 all	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 place	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
51	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay a condition, not said to happen	future	you			night	with me	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the old man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	I	a book of the history of the world				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
4	know	shall	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	men = man			before daylight		tree rules
6	be a condition, not said to happen	present	such place in world at all		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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