The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 115

Seeing that he was rather cast down, the old man told him that he had a brother nine hundred miles away, and that if information could be got about them from anyone it would be from him; ‘and I will enable you,’ he said, ‘to reach the place where he lives before night.’

Who acts: old man, Irishman, information, I · What happens: see, cast down, tell, have, get, be · To what, where: Irishman, brother, information, anyone, you, place · 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 (old man, Irishman, information, I), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 told	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 cast	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cast	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cast	aux:pass
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 cast	advmod
6	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Seeing	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 cast	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 said	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brother	det
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 hundred	compound
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 miles	nummod
21	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 away	obl:unmarked
22	away	away	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 got	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
27	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 got	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 got	aux:pass
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	parataxis
31	about	about	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	obl
33	from	from	ADP	_	34 anyone	case
34	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 got	obl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 him	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 him	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 him	cop
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 anyone	acl:relcl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 enable	punct
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	45 enable	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 enable	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 enable	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 enable	aux
45	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	ccomp
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 enable	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 enable	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 said	nsubj
50	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 reach	punct
52	‘	'	PUNCT	_	54 reach	punct
53	to	to	PART	_	54 reach	mark
54	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 said	ccomp
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 place	det
56	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 reach	obj
57	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 lives	advmod
58	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 lives	nsubj
59	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 place	acl:relcl
60	before	before	ADP	_	61 night	case
61	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 lives	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 reach	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	54 reach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	the old man not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	cast down	past · passive		Irishman					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		Irishman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	have	past	Irishman	a brother				away property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
5	get a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		information		anyone		about men = man	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from anyone=Source
6	is	would	information					from Irishman	tree rules
7	enable	future	I	you					tree rules
8	say speech: assert	past	Irishman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	reach	to-infinitive		the place					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
10	live	present	Irishman				night		vn exist-47.1-1 «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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