The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 52

With all this the Irishman decided to stay; but that night there were three at him for every one that was there the two nights before, and it looked very unlikely that he would be alive in the morning after all that he got.

Who acts: Irishman, three, one, it · What happens: decide, stay, be, look, get

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 (Irishman, three, one, it), 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	With	with	SCONJ	_	6 decided	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 decided	det:predet
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 all	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Irishman	det
5	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 decided	nsubj
6	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 looked	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stay	mark
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decided	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 were	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 were	cc
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 were	obl:unmarked
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 were	expl
14	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decided	conj
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 were	nsubj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 three	nmod
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 one	case
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 three	nmod
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 there	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 there	cop
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 one	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nights	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 nights	nummod
26	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 before	obl
27	before	before	ADV	_	23 there	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 looked	nsubj
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 unlikely	advmod
33	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 looked	xcomp
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 alive	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 alive	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 alive	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 alive	cop
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 unlikely	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 morning	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 morning	det
41	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 alive	obl
42	after	after	SCONJ	_	46 got	mark
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 got	det:predet
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 got	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 got	nsubj
46	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 alive	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	the Irishman				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Irishman not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	three at Irishman for every one	there	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	every one			before, there property	tree rules
5	look	past	it			unlikely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	would	Irishman		morning	alive property	tree rules
7	get	past	Irishman				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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