The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 138

The Irishman knew that it was for himself she had been waiting so long, but he was unable to make any better of it, for he had no hope of reaching the Blue Mountains all his life.

Who acts: Irishman, hope · What happens: know, wait, be, make, have, reach · To what, where: hope, Blue Mountains · 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 (Irishman, hope), 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	2 Irishman	det
2	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 waiting	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 waiting	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waiting	aux
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 was	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 waiting	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 waiting	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 waiting	aux
12	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 knew	ccomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 waiting	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 unable	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 unable	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 unable	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unable	cop
19	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 unable	xcomp
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 better	det
23	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 make	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 better	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 had	case
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 knew	parataxis
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 hope	det
31	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
32	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 reaching	mark
33	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 hope	acl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Mountains	det
35	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Mountains	compound
36	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 reaching	obj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 life	det:predet
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Mountains	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Irishman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wait	past · perfect · progressive	hope		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Irishman		unable property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	Irishman not said here		good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	have	past	Irishman	no hope		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
6	reach	gerund	no hope not said here	the Blue Mountains Irishman's life		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=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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