The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 97

This made him take heart again, and he gave up the idea of killing himself, thinking that he would go on in hope of meeting some one who could tell him where the Blue Mountains were.

Who acts: This, loss, idea, hope, one, Blue Mountains · What happens: make, take, give up, kill, think, go on · To what, where: loss, heart, idea, hope, one · 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 (This, loss, idea, hope), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obj
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 idea	det
13	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 killing	mark
15	killing	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 idea	acl
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 killing	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thinking	punct
18	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 gave	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 thinking	ccomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	22 go	compound:prt
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 hope	case
25	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	of	of	SCONJ	_	27 meeting	mark
27	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 hope	acl
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meeting	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 tell	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 one	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	38 were	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Mountains	det
36	Blue	Blue	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Mountains	compound
37	Mountains	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Plur	38 were	nsubj
38	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	make	past	This	loss				tree rules
2	take	infinitive	loss not said here	heart			again	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	give up	past	loss	the idea				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Source
4	kill	gerund	the idea not said here	loss				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	think speech: other	gerund	loss not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	go on	would	loss			hope		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hope=Location
7	meet	gerund	hope not said here	some one				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
8	tell speech: assert	could	some one		loss			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	be	past	the Blue Mountains					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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