The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 5

Whenever he came to a new country the first question that he asked was whether people died in that land, and when he heard that they did, he set out again on his quest.

Who acts: man, people · What happens: come, ask, be, hear, do, set out · To what, where: new country, first question, land, quest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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	Whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 set	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 question	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 question	amod
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 country	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 asked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 question	acl
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 died	cop
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 died	mark
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 died	nsubj
17	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 question	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 land	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 land	det
20	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 died	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 heard	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 did	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 did	nsubj
28	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 set	compound:prt
33	again	again	ADV	_	31 set	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 quest	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 quest	nmod:poss
36	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man		a new country and the first question		whenever property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	man	the first question not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
3	is	past	people	the first question not said here	that land		die property	tree rules
4	hear	past	man					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	past	people					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	set out	past	man		man's quest	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	quest		man					nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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