The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 21
Off he went without saying a word to the Irishman, and everything happened to him just as it had done to the Scotsman.
Who acts: Englishman, everything · What happens: go, say, happen, do · To what, where: word, Irishman, Englishman · 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 (Englishman, everything), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 saying | mark |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Irishman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Irishman | det |
| 10 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 word | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | obl |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 done | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 happened | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Scotsman | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Scotsman | det |
| 24 | Scotsman | Scotsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 done | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Englishman | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Englishman not said here | a word | the Irishman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to irishman=Recipient | |||
| 3 | happen | past | everything | Englishman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect · passive | word | to the Scotsman | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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