The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 192

But the magicians, with all their arts, could find out nothing, except that he was still living and undergoing great suffering; but none could tell where he was to be found.

Who acts: magicians, magician, none · What happens: find out, live, undergo, tell, find · To what, where: nothing, great suffering, magician · 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 (magicians, magician, none), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 magicians	det
3	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arts	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 arts	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 arts	det:predet
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 arts	nmod:poss
8	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 magicians	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 magicians	punct
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 find	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 living	punct
15	except	except	ADP	_	20 living	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 except	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 living	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 living	aux
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 living	advmod
20	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 find	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 undergoing	cc
22	undergoing	undergo	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 living	conj
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 suffering	amod
24	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 undergoing	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 tell	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
27	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 tell	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 tell	aux
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 find	conj
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 found	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 found	aux:pass
33	to	to	PART	_	35 found	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 found	aux:pass
35	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 tell	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	find out	could	the magicians and kings's arts	nothing		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	live	past · progressive	magician		still	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	undergo	gerund	magician not said here	great suffering		tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	could	none			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	find not said to happen	past · passive		magician		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: 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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