The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 24

From that time the youth never felt lonely as he walked along; he always had company, because he understood the language of birds; and in this way he learned many things which mere human knowledge could never have taught him.

Who acts: youth, Solomon, many things · What happens: not feel, walk, have, understand, learn, mere · To what, where: company, language, way, human knowledge, many things, Solomon · 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, Solomon, many things), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 felt	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 felt	advmod
7	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 felt	xcomp
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 walked	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	advcl
12	along	along	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
17	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 understood	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 understood	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 understood	nsubj
21	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 language	det
23	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 understood	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 birds	case
25	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 language	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 learned	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 learned	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 way	det
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 learned	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 learned	nsubj
32	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 felt	conj
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 things	amod
34	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 taught	nsubj:pass
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 mere	nsubj
36	mere	mere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 things	acl:relcl
37	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 knowledge	amod
38	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 mere	obj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 taught	aux
40	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	42 taught	advmod
41	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 taught	aux
42	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 learned	ccomp
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 taught	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feel	past	the youth				time	lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	walk	past	Solomon					along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Solomon	company				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
4	understand	past	Solomon	the language of birds					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
5	learn	past	Solomon			this way			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	mere	present	many things	human knowledge					tree rules
7	not teach speech: other	could · perfect · passive		many things	Solomon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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