The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 120

The youth, however, would not listen; and bidding his father and mother farewell, set out on his search.

Who acts: youth · What happens: not listen, bid, set out, search · To what, where: father, search

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 youth	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 listen	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 listen	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 listen	advmod
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 bidding	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bidding	cc
11	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 listen	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bidding	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	11 bidding	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 set	punct
18	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bidding	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 set	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 search	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 search	nmod:poss
22	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 set	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	would	the youth			however property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	bid	gerund	the youth not said here	youth's father and mother		farewell property	tree rules
3	set out	participle	the youth not said here		youth's search		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	search		youth				nom search «act 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: «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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