The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 67
By this the Irishman knew that she had sent the lad to wait on him.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: know, send, wait · To what, where: lad · 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 (mistress), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 Irishman | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Irishman | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Irishman | det |
| 4 | Irishman | Irishman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 sent | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lad | det |
| 11 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 wait | mark |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | by the Irishman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | mistress | the lad | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | mistress not said here | on Irishman | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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