The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 48
And throwing the sack over his shoulders he started out into the world, in search of fresh work.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: throw, start out, search · To what, where: sack, shoulders, world, fresh work
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 started | cc |
| 2 | throwing | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 started | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sack | det |
| 4 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 throwing | obj |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 shoulders | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 throwing | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 started | nsubj |
| 9 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 started | compound:prt |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 search | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 search | case |
| 16 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 started | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 work | case |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 search | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | gerund | the sack | Martin's shoulders | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent sack=Theme over shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 2 | start out | past | Martin | the world | in search of fresh work | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | search | fresh work | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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