The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 88
Being thus left all alone, he thought of going into the room where all the men were lying asleep, and there among the rest he found his two comrades who had deserted along with him.
Who acts: lad, men, two comrades · What happens: leave, think, go, lie, find, desert · To what, where: room, two comrades
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 (lad, men, two comrades), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 alone | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 going | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 lying | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 men | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lying | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lying | aux |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 room | acl:relcl |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lying | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 found | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 found | advmod |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 rest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rest | det |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 comrades | nummod |
| 31 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | obj |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 deserted | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 deserted | aux |
| 34 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 comrades | acl:relcl |
| 35 | along | along | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 deserted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund · passive | alone, thus property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | lad | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | gerund | lad not said here | the room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | all men | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | past | lad | lad's two comrades | there | among the rest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Topic | ||
| 6 | desert | past · perfect | lad's two comrades | along lad | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme along he=Destination |
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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