The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 24

He listened to all he heard, and determined that he too would try his luck.

Who acts: man · What happens: listen, hear, determine, try · To what, where: luck

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (man), 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	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 listened	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 determined	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 determined	cc
9	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 listened	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 try	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
12	too	too	ADV	_	14 try	advmod
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 determined	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 luck	nmod:poss
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	past	man		to all	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to all=Theme
2	hear	past	man			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	determine	past	man not said here			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	try	would	man	man'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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