The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 24

As soon as day came he also saw the castle, and set out towards it; but when he reached it he could see no signs of fire or living being about it.

Who acts: day, Englishman · What happens: come, see, set out, reach, live, sign · To what, where: castle, signs, fire

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 (day, Englishman), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 came	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
7	also	also	ADV	_	8 saw	advmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 saw	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	towards	towards	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 set	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 reached	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	nsubj
21	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 reached	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 signs	det
27	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 fire	case
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 signs	nmod
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 living	cc
31	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 fire	conj
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 living	xcomp
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 being	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	day			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Englishman	the castle			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
3	set out	infinitive	Englishman not said here		castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards it=Initial_Location
4	reach	past	Englishman	castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	see	could	Englishman	no signs of fire			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
6	live	gerund	Englishman not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sign			fire			nom sign «communication 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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