The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 20

When nightfall and the time of the wild beasts came upon these, the Englishman happened to climb up into the very same tree on which the Scotsman was when he got a sight of the castle; and as soon as the day began to dawn and the Englishman looked to the four quarters of heaven, what did he see but the castle too!

Who acts: nightfall, Englishman, Scotsman, day · What happens: come, happen, climb up, be, begin, look · To what, where: these, same tree, four quarters, castle

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 (nightfall, Englishman, Scotsman, day), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
2	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 time	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nightfall	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 beasts	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beasts	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beasts	amod
9	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 time	nmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 these	case
12	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Englishman	det
15	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 happened	nsubj
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 climb	mark
18	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 happened	xcomp
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 climb	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 same	advmod
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tree	amod
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 climb	obl
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 got	obl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Scotsman	det
28	Scotsman	Scotsman	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 got	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 got	cop
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 got	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tree	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sight	det
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 castle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 castle	det
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sight	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 soon	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 soon	cc
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 soon	advmod
41	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 came	advmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	45 began	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 began	nsubj
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 soon	advcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 dawn	mark
47	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 began	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 looked	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Englishman	det
50	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 looked	nsubj
51	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 began	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 quarters	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 quarters	det
54	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 quarters	nummod
55	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 looked	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 heaven	case
57	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 quarters	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 see	punct
59	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	62 see	obj
60	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 see	aux
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 see	nsubj
62	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 quarters	parataxis
63	but	but	CCONJ	_	65 castle	cc
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 castle	det
65	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 see	conj
66	too	too	ADV	_	62 see	advmod
67	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	nightfall and the time of the wild beasts		these		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon this=Location
2	happen	past	the Englishman					tree rules
3	climb up	to-infinitive	the Englishman not said here		the same tree			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination
4	is	past	the Scotsman		the same tree		get property	tree rules
5	begin	past	the day			dawn		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	look	past	the Englishman				to the four quarters of heaven	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to quarter=Theme
7	see	past · do-support	Englishman	the four quarters of heaven				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
8	sight			the castle				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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