The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 136

The young man never halted in his flight until he reached the dwelling of the wise magician who had taught him the speech of birds.

Who acts: young man, finger · What happens: not halt, reach, teach, speak · To what, where: flight, dwelling, wise magician, finger, birds · 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 (young man, finger), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 halted	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 halted	advmod
5	halted	halt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 flight	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 flight	nmod:poss
8	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 halted	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 reached	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 halted	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dwelling	det
13	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 magician	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 magician	det
16	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 magician	amod
17	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dwelling	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 taught	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taught	aux
20	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 magician	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taught	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 speech	det
23	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taught	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 birds	case
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 speech	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 halted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not halt	past	the young man			finger's flight	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	reach	past	finger	the dwelling of the wise magician			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the wise magician	finger		tree rules
4	speak			birds			nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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