The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 116
So he blew his whistle, and the Irishman landed at the brother’s house before nightfall.
Who acts: Irishman · What happens: blow, land, whistle · To what, where: whistle, house
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 | 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 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 landed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 landed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Irishman | det |
| 9 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 landed | nsubj |
| 10 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 landed | obl |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 nightfall | case |
| 17 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 landed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Irishman | Irishman's whistle | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | land | past | the Irishman | the brother's house | before nightfall | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | whistle | Irishman | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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