The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 126

The old man questioned each of them as to where they had come from, but there was not one of them that had come from the Blue Mountains.

Who acts: old man, birds, that · What happens: question, come, not be · To what, where: each, one, Blue 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 (old man, birds, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 questioned	nsubj
4	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 questioned	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 each	nmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 come	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 questioned	advcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	13 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 one	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 one	advmod
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 questioned	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 one	parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 Mountains	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Mountains	det
28	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Mountains	compound
29	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 come	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 questioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	question speech: other	past	the old man	each			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient
2	come	past · perfect	birds = bird				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is a	past		one		of birds = bird	tree rules
4	come	past · perfect	that		the Blue Mountains		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_Location

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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