The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 50

He hastened to the place where he had burned the mortar, collected a few of the ashes which the old man had left behind, and took them to the road, hoping that his luck might be as good as the old man’s, or perhaps even better.

Who acts: bosom, old man, luck · What happens: hasten, burn, collect, leave behind, take, hope · To what, where: place, bosom, few, ashes, road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bosom, old man, luck), 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 hastened	nsubj
2	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hastened	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 burned	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 burned	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burned	aux
9	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 place	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mortar	det
11	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burned	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 collected	punct
13	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hastened	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 few	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 collected	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ashes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ashes	det
18	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 few	nmod
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 left	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 left	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 left	aux
24	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 ashes	acl:relcl
25	behind	behind	ADV	_	24 left	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 took	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 took	cc
28	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hastened	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 took	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 road	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 road	det
32	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 took	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hoping	punct
34	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 took	advcl
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 good	mark
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 luck	nmod:poss
37	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 good	nsubj
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 good	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 good	cop
40	as	as	ADV	_	41 good	advmod
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hoping	ccomp
42	as	as	ADP	_	45 man	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 man	amod
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 good	obl
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 man	case
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 better	punct
48	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 better	cc
49	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	51 better	advmod
50	even	even	ADV	_	51 better	advmod
51	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 good	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hasten	past	bosom		the place		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination
2	burn	past · perfect · passive		bosom			tree rules
3	collect	past		a few of the ashes			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Theme
4	leave behind	past · perfect	the old man	the ashes		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
5	take	past	bosom not said here	ashes = ash	the road		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to road=Destination
6	hope	gerund	bosom not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	is	might	man's luck			as the old man; good property	tree rules
8	be		man's luck not said here			perhaps property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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