The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 3
His parents sent him away to learn several things, but Halvor stayed nowhere, for when he had been gone two or three days he always ran away from his master, hurried off home, and sat down in the chimney corner to grub among the ashes again.
Who acts: parents, Halvor, couple · What happens: send away, learn, stay, go, run away, hurry · To what, where: couple, several things, two days, master, home, chimney corner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents, Halvor, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 things | amod |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stayed | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 stayed | cc |
| 12 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stayed | nsubj |
| 13 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 14 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 stayed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gone | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 17 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 gone | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gone | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 gone | aux:pass |
| 21 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stayed | conj |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 three | cc |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 two | conj |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 ran | advmod |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 days | acl:relcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 ran | advmod |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 master | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 away | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hurried | punct |
| 34 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 master | acl |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hurried | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sat | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 sat | cc |
| 39 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 sat | compound:prt |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 corner | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 corner | det |
| 43 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 corner | compound |
| 44 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sat | obl |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 grub | mark |
| 46 | grub | grub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 sat | advcl |
| 47 | among | among | ADP | _ | 49 ashes | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ashes | det |
| 49 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 grub | obl |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 46 grub | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | past | couple's parents | couple | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | couple's parents not said here | several things | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | Halvor | nowhere property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect · passive | couple | day | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run away | past | couple | two days not said here | always, away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme day=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | hurry | participle | couple's master not said here | home | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off home=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | sit down | past | couple's parents not said here | the chimney corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 8 | grub | to-infinitive | couple's parents not said here | again | among the ashes | tree rules |
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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