The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 4
So the sons determined to set out into the world and to try their luck.
Who acts: sons · What happens: determine, set out, try · To what, where: world, luck
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons), 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 | _ | 4 determined | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sons | det |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 determined | nsubj |
| 4 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 try | mark |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 set | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 luck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 try | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | participle | the sons | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | set out | to-infinitive | the sons not said here | the world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | the sons not said here | sons's luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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