The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 124

I shall then ask each of them to tell where it came from, and if there is any way of finding out the Blue Mountains that is it.’

Who acts: I, whistle, Blue Mountains · What happens: ask, tell, come, be, find out · To what, where: each, way, whistle · 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 (I, whistle, Blue Mountains), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ask	aux
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ask	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 each	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 came	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
13	from	from	ADP	_	12 came	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 way	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 way	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 is	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 way	cop
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	parataxis
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 finding	mark
22	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 Mountains	csubj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 finding	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mountains	det
25	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mountains	compound
26	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	20 way	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 it	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 it	cop
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 Mountains	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	shall	I	each	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past	whistle				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present		any way		the Blue Mountains nmod	tree rules
5	find out	gerund					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	the Blue Mountains	whistle			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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