The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 95

He therefore resolved to travel for change, and by means of his magic art was able to visit every country he came to see under different shapes, returning every few weeks to the place where he had left a few followers.

Who acts: godmother, magic art · What happens: resolve, travel, mean, be, visit, come · To what, where: country, different shapes, few followers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (godmother, magic art), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 resolved	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 resolved	advmod
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 travel	mark
5	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 resolved	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 change	case
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 means	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 means	case
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	parataxis
12	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 able	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 art	nmod:poss
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 art	amod
15	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 able	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 visit	mark
19	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 country	det
21	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 visit	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 country	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	xcomp
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 shapes	case
27	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shapes	amod
28	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 returning	punct
30	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 see	advcl
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 weeks	det
32	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 weeks	amod
33	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 returning	obl:unmarked
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 place	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 place	det
36	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 returning	obl
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 left	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 left	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 left	aux
40	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 place	acl:relcl
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 followers	det
42	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 followers	amod
43	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 left	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	godmother				therefore property	tree rules
2	travel	to-infinitive	godmother not said here				for change	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	godmother's magic art				able property	tree rules
5	visit	to-infinitive	godmother's magic art not said here	every country				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-Agent
6	come	past	godmother	every country not said here				tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive	godmother not said here		different shapes			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	return	gerund	godmother not said here			week	to the place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
9	leave	past · perfect	godmother	a few followers				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent follower=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 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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