More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 106

Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew tired of his tailoring, and wished to follow some other path that would lead to honour and fame.

Who acts: Johnny, other path · What happens: be, grow, wish, follow, lead, tailor · To what, where: tailor, other path

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny, other path), 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	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tailor	nsubj
2	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Johnny	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tailor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tailor	det
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 trade	case
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tailor	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 man	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grew	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 spirit	case
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tailor	parataxis
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 tailoring	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 tailoring	nmod:poss
20	tailoring	tailoring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tired	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wished	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wished	cc
23	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 follow	mark
25	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wished	xcomp
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 path	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 path	amod
28	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lead	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 lead	aux
31	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 path	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 honour	case
33	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lead	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fame	cc
35	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 honour	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tailor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Johnny	a tailor	by trade	tree rules
2	grow	past	Johnny		like a man of spirit; tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wish	past	Johnny not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	Johnny not said here	some other path		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
5	lead	would	some other path		to honour and fame	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to honour=Patient
6	tailor		Johnny			nom tailoring «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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