The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 87

The Irishman was ready to kill the lad out of sheer vexation, but when he gave a glance over his shoulder not a trace of the fair-haired lad was left.

Who acts: Irishman, lad · What happens: be, kill, give, leave · To what, where: lad, sheer vexation, glance, shoulder, trace

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, lad), 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	2 Irishman	det
2	Irishman	Irishman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ready	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	cop
4	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ready	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 vexation	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vexation	case
11	sheer	sheer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 vexation	amod
12	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kill	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 gave	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	nsubj
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ready	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 glance	det
19	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 shoulder	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shoulder	nmod:poss
22	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obl
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 trace	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 trace	det
25	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 left	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 lad	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lad	det
28	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 haired	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fair	punct
30	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lad	amod
31	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 trace	nmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 left	aux:pass
33	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 gave	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Irishman			ready property	tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	the Irishman not said here	the lad	sheer vexation		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme out vexation=Initial_Location
3	give	past	lad	a glance	lad's shoulder		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Theme
4	leave	past · passive		a trace of the haired lad			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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