The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 27
Next day the second son said that he would now go out into the world to seek his fortune.
Who acts: second son, state · What happens: say, go out, seek · To what, where: world, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second son, state), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seek | mark |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the second son | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go out | would | state | the world | now | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | state not said here | state's fortune | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
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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