The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 88
However, he resolved to seek the whole world through till he came to the right place.
Who acts: sight · What happens: resolve, seek, come · To what, where: whole world, right place
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 resolved | nsubj |
| 4 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 seek | mark |
| 6 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 resolved | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 world | amod |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seek | obj |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 came | case |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seek | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 place | amod |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | sight | however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | sight not said here | the whole world | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | sight | the right place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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