The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 122
‘I never heard the name before; but if they do exist I shall find them out.
Who acts: I · What happens: not hear, exist, find out · To what, where: name, Mountains
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), 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 heard | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 heard | advmod |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 heard | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 exist | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 exist | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 exist | aux |
| 13 | exist | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heard | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 exist | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 find | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | past | I | the name | before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | exist | present · do-support | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find out | shall | I | Mountains = mountain | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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