The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 29
The young man saw that there was no help for it, and he set out with a wallet full of food over his shoulder.
Who acts: young man, help · What happens: see, be, set out · To what, where: shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, help), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 was | mark |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 was | expl |
| 7 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 help | det |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 was | nsubj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 help | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 set | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 set | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wallet | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wallet | det |
| 19 | wallet | wallet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wallet | amod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 food | case |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 shoulder | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no help for world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | help | help's shoulder | with a wallet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Initial_Location |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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