The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 7

He travelled on most of the day, so that it was quite late when he reached the castle, and to his great disappointment found nothing but closed doors and no smoke rising from the chimneys.

Who acts: Irishman, hunger · What happens: travel, be, reach, find, close, rise · To what, where: most, castle, nothing, chimneys

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, hunger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 most	case
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 travelled	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 reached	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 late	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 late	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 reached	advcl
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 reached	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reached	nsubj
17	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reached	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 found	cc
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 disappointment	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 disappointment	nmod:poss
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 disappointment	amod
25	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
26	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 found	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 doors	cc
29	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 doors	amod
30	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 nothing	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 smoke	cc
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 smoke	det
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 nothing	conj
34	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 nothing	acl
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 chimneys	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 chimneys	det
37	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rising	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Irishman		most of the day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on most=Trajectory
2	is	past	hunger			late property	tree rules
3	reach	past	Irishman	the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
4	find	past	Irishman not said here	nothing		to Irishman's great disappointment	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
5	close	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	rise	gerund			the chimneys		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Initial_Location
7	disappoint		Irishman				nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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