The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 155

The youth now began to consider how he should act, for if he had to push the iron horse from behind he could not ride upon it as the sorcerer had said he must.

Who acts: youth, wisdom · What happens: begin, consider, act, have, push, not ride · To what, where: iron horse, sorcerer · 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 (youth, wisdom), 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 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 began	advmod
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 consider	mark
6	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 act	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 act	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 act	aux
10	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 consider	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 push	mark
17	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 had	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horse	compound
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 push	obj
21	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 ride	mark
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	26 ride	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ride	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ride	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 ride	advmod
26	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 push	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ride	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 said	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sorcerer	det
31	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 said	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	aux
33	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 ride	advcl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 must	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 said	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the youth		now		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	consider	to-infinitive	the youth not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	act	should	wisdom				vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	wisdom				tree rules
5	push	to-infinitive	wisdom not said here	the iron horse			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
6	not ride	could	wisdom			upon horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the sorcerer			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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