The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 142

So he went home and put some food into a bag, and then set forth, hoping that some accident might show him which path to take.

Who acts: king, accident · What happens: go, put, set, hope, show, take · To what, where: food, bag, path, king

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, accident), 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 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 put	cc
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bag	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bag	det
11	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 set	advmod
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
16	forth	forth	ADV	_	15 set	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hoping	punct
18	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 show	mark
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 accident	det
21	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 show	aux
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hoping	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 show	iobj
25	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	26 path	det
26	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 take	mark
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 path	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	king					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	infinitive	king not said here	some food		a bag			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal
3	set	infinitive	king not said here				then	forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	hope	gerund	king not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	show	might	some accident	which path	king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient path=Topic
6	take	to-infinitive	some accident not said here	which path not said here					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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