The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 87
So I left my home, and went out into the world, hoping that somewhere I might find what I was seeking.”
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, go out, hope, find, seek · To what, where: home, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 16 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 find | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 seeking | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 seeking | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 seeking | aux |
| 23 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 find | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | I | my home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | I not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | hope | gerund | I not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | find | might | I | somewhere property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seek | past · progressive | I | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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