The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 4

At length he reached an old magician called Mana, whose learning was greater than that of the rest, and who could tell him all he wanted to know.

Who acts: deal, learning · What happens: reach, call, be, tell, want, know · To what, where: old magician, length, deal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deal, learning), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magician	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magician	amod
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 magician	acl
9	Mana	Mana	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 greater	punct
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 learning	nmod:poss
12	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 greater	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 greater	cop
14	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 Mana	amod
15	than	than	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 greater	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 that	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 tell	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reached	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 him	det
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 know	mark
30	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wanted	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	deal	a old magician		length		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent magician=Theme at length=Asset
2	call	participle		a old magician not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	learning				than that; great property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	could			deal			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	want	past	deal					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	deal not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/34/4/