The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 139

The old man noticed how sad he grew, and asked the Eagle what she would take for carrying this man on her back to the Blue Mountains.

Who acts: old man, Irishman, noise · What happens: notice, grow, ask, take, carry · To what, where: Eagle, man, back · 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 (old man, Irishman, noise), 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 noticed	nsubj
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noticed	xcomp
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Eagle	det
13	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 take	obj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 carrying	mark
19	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 take	advcl
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carrying	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 back	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 back	nmod:poss
24	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 carrying	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 Mountains	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Mountains	det
27	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Mountains	compound
28	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 back	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	the old man				sad property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	grow	past	Irishman					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past			the Eagle			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take not said to happen	would	noise					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
5	carry	gerund	noise not said here	this man		noise's back to the Blue Mountains		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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