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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 7

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He travelled on most of the day, so that it was quite late when he reached the castle, and to his great disappointment found nothing but closed doors and no smoke rising from the chimneys.

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**Who acts:** Irishman, hunger · **What happens:** travel, be, reach, find, close, rise · **To what, where:** most, castle, nothing, chimneys

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, hunger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:45:7
# text = He travelled on most of the day, so that it was quite late when he reached the castle, and to his great disappointment found nothing but closed doors and no smoke rising from the chimneys.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	14	mark	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
34	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | Irishman |  |  | most of the day |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on most=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | hunger |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** | past | Irishman | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | Irishman *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | to Irishman's great disappointment | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 5 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  | the chimneys |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chimney=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **disappoint** |  | Irishman |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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