The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 13

Only no one knew where the ring was hidden, nor was there any sorcerer or learned man to be found who would be able to explain the inscription.

Who acts: one · What happens: know, hide, be, learn, find, explain · To what, where: sorcerer, ring, man, inscription · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 knew	advmod
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 hidden	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ring	det
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hidden	aux:pass
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knew	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 was	cc
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 knew	expl
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 sorcerer	det
15	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 learned	cc
17	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 learned	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 found	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 found	aux:pass
21	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 learned	ccomp
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 able	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 able	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	cop
25	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 found	ccomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 explain	mark
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 able	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 inscription	det
29	inscription	inscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 explain	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	past	no one	any sorcerer	there		tree rules
2	hide	past · passive		the ring			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	be	past	no one not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	learn	past	no one not said here	man			tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive · passive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
6	is	would				able property	tree rules
7	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive		the inscription			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic

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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