The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 3

One day the eldest lad said that he would go out to earn his living; he soon got leave to do that, and set out on his way into the world.

Who acts: eldest lad, lad · What happens: say, go out, earn, get, leave, do · To what, where: living, that, way · 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 (eldest lad, lad), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lad	det
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 lad	amod
5	lad	lad	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	_	10 go	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 earn	mark
13	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 living	nmod:poss
15	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 earn	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 got	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 got	nsubj
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 got	advmod
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
20	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 got	xcomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 do	mark
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 leave	xcomp
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 do	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 set	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 set	cc
26	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 got	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 set	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 way	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 way	nmod:poss
30	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 world	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 set	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the eldest lad			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go out	would	lad				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	earn	to-infinitive	lad not said here	lad's living				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
4	get	past	lad				soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	leave	infinitive	lad not said here					tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	lad not said here	that				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
7	set out	past	lad not said here		lad's way		into the world	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location
8	live		lad					nom living «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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