More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 113
His resolution was now taken to cut out his path to fortune and honour.
Who acts: Johnny · What happens: take, cut out, resolve · To what, where: resolution, 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), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 resolution | nmod:poss |
| 2 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cut | mark |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 taken | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 path | nmod:poss |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 fortune | case |
| 12 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honour | cc |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fortune | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | Johnny's resolution | now | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | cut out | to-infinitive | Johnny's path | to fortune and honour | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector path=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | resolve | Johnny | nom resolution «communication 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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