The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 14
At last a young man, with a good heart and plenty of courage, set out to search for the ring.
What happens: set out, search
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heart | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 heart | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 heart | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heart | amod |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plenty | cc |
| 12 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 courage | case |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plenty | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 search | mark |
| 19 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 set | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ring | det |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 search | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | at a last young man with a good heart and plenty of courage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | for the ring | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for ring=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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