The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 86
So, one fine summer morning, he started off to seek his fortune with nothing but the clothes he wore on his back.
Who acts: couple · What happens: start off, seek, wear · To what, where: fortune, back
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple), 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 | _ | 9 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 morning | nummod |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 morning | amod |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 morning | compound |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 morning | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 seek | mark |
| 12 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 started | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seek | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 nothing | case |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 seek | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 clothes | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clothes | det |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 nothing | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 21 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 back | nmod:poss |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | couple | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | couple not said here | couple's fortune | with nothing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | |||
| 3 | wear | past | couple | couple's back | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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