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The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 85

But being a prudent man, he finally decided that it would be best for him to leave his old neighbourhood and look for a home in a distant part of the country, where nobody knew anything about him.

Who acts: prudent man, man, nobody · What happens: be, decide, leave, look, know · To what, where: prudent man, old neighbourhood, distant part, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prudent man, man, nobody), 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

cccopdetamodnsubjpunctnsubjadvmodmarkobjauxcopadvmodmarknsubjmarkccompnmod:possamodobjccconjcasedetoblcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relclobjcasenmodpunctrootButCCONJbeingAUXaDETprudentADJmanNOUN,PUNCThePRONfinallyADVdecidedVERBthatSCONJitPRONwouldAUXbeAUXbestADVforSCONJhimPRONtoPARTleaveVERBhisPRONoldADJneighbourhoodNOUNandCCONJlookVERBforADPaDEThomeNOUNinADPaDETdistantADJpartNOUNofADPtheDETcountryNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVnobodyPRONknewVERBanythingPRONaboutADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_5 mancc
2beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 mancop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 mandet
4prudentprudentADJDegree=Pos5 manamod
5manmanNOUNNumber=Sing9 decidednsubj
6,,PUNCT_5 manpunct
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 decidednsubj
8finallyfinallyADV_9 decidedadvmod
9decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thatthatSCONJ_18 leavemark
11ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 bestobj
12wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin14 bestaux
13bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf14 bestcop
14bestwellADVDegree=Sup18 leaveadvmod
15forforSCONJ_18 leavemark
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 leavensubj
17totoPART_18 leavemark
18leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf9 decidedccomp
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 neighbourhoodnmod:poss
20oldoldADJDegree=Pos21 neighbourhoodamod
21neighbourhoodneighbourhoodNOUNNumber=Sing18 leaveobj
22andandCCONJ_23 lookcc
23looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf18 leaveconj
24forforADP_26 homecase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 homedet
26homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing23 lookobl
27ininADP_30 partcase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 partdet
29distantdistantADJDegree=Pos30 partamod
30partpartNOUNNumber=Sing23 lookobl
31ofofADP_33 countrycase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 countrydet
33countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing30 partnmod
34,,PUNCT_37 knewpunct
35wherewhereADVPronType=Rel37 knewadvmod
36nobodynobodyPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg37 knewnsubj
37knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 countryacl:relcl
38anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind37 knewobj
39aboutaboutADP_40 himcase
40himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 anythingnmod
41..PUNCT_9 decidedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is agerunda prudent mantree rules
2decidepasta prudent manfinally propertyvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3iswouldwell propertytree rules
4leave not said to happento-infinitivemanman's old neighbourhoodvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbourhood=Theme
5lookinfinitiveman not said herea distant part of the countryfor a homevn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for home=Theme in part=Location
6knowpastnobodyanythingabout manvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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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