The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 126
We set out to travel through the world, and what does it matter if we go to the right or to the left?'
Who acts: We · What happens: set out, travel, matter, go · To what, where: world, right
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 set | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 travel | mark |
| 5 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 set | xcomp |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 matter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 matter | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 matter | obj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 matter | expl |
| 14 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 set | parataxis |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 matter | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 right | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 right | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 left | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 left | det |
| 24 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 right | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | We | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | travel | to-infinitive | We not said here | the world | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through world=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | matter | present · do-support | world | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | we | the right or the left | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to right=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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