The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 22

The poor Irishman was now left all alone, and did not know where the others had gone to, so he just stayed where he was, very sad and miserable.

Who acts: others, Irishman · What happens: leave, not know, go, stay, be · To what, where: poor Irishman · 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 (others, Irishman), 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 Irishman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Irishman	amod
3	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 left	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	aux:pass
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 left	advmod
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 alone	advmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 left	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	conj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 gone	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gone	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 know	ccomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 gone	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stayed	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 stayed	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stayed	nsubj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 stayed	advmod
24	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 sad	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 sad	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 sad	cop
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sad	punct
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 sad	advmod
30	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 stayed	advcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 miserable	cc
32	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sad	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		the poor Irishman	now	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not know	past · do-support					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	the others				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay	past	Irishman				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Irishman			sad property	tree rules
6	be		Irishman not said here				tree rules

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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