The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 144

Then the old man told the Irishman to mount, and to remember to throw a quarter of beef to her every time she looked round.

Who acts: old man, noise · What happens: tell, mount, remember, throw, look round · To what, where: Irishman, quarter, noise, time · 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, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Irishman	det
7	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 mount	mark
9	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 remember	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 remember	mark
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 mount	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 throw	mark
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 remember	xcomp
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 quarter	det
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 beef	case
19	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 quarter	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 her	case
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 throw	obl
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 time	det
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obl:unmarked
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 looked	nsubj
25	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
26	round	round	ADV	_	25 looked	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		the Irishman	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent irishman=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here					vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
3	remember	to-infinitive	the old man not said here					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	throw	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	a quarter of beef	noise	time		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme to she=Destination
5	look round	past	noise	every time not said here			round property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Attribute

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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