The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 63
When they grew up the elder went to seek his fortune in a far country, and for many years no one heard anything about him.
Who acts: difficulties, elder, one · What happens: grow up, go, seek, hear · To what, where: fortune, far country, anything
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficulties, elder, one), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 elder | det |
| 6 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seek | mark |
| 9 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 went | xcomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seek | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 years | amod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | obl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 heard | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 anything | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | difficulties = difficulty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the elder | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the elder not said here | elder's fortune | a far country | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme in country=Location | |||
| 4 | hear | past | no one | anything | year | about elder | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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