The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 114

He stayed there all night, but there was not a word in the book about the Blue Mountains.

Who acts: Irishman · What happens: stay, not be · To what, where: word, book

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stayed	advmod
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 night	det
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 word	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 word	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 word	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stayed	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 book	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 book	det
15	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	nmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	19 Mountains	case
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	15 book	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Irishman			there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is a	past		a word		the book about the Blue Mountains			tree rules

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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