The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 60
When he had given the young man a good start he set off himself, but the way seemed even longer and duller than before.
Who acts: son, way · What happens: give, set off, seem · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, way), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 given | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 start | amod |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 start | acl:relcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 set | compound:prt |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 set | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seemed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 seemed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seemed | nsubj |
| 19 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | conj |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 duller | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 duller | cc |
| 23 | duller | dull | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 seemed | xcomp |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 before | case |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 23 duller | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | set off | past | son | son | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the way | dull property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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