The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 15

The young man thanked the wizard for his counsel, and went his way firmly resolved to carry out his purpose, even if he paid for it with his life; and when night came he set out for a wide, lonely moor, where the serpent-king held his feast.

Who acts: young man, way, night, serpent king, man · What happens: thank, go, resolve, carry out, pay, come · To what, where: wizard, purpose, feast

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, way, night, serpent king), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	nsubj
4	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thanked	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 counsel	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 counsel	nmod:poss
9	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wizard	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 resolved	nsubj
15	firmly	firmly	ADV	_	16 resolved	advmod
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 resolved	xcomp
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 carry	compound:prt
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 purpose	nmod:poss
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carry	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 paid	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 paid	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 paid	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 paid	nsubj
26	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 carry	advcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 paid	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 life	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 paid	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 set	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 set	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 came	advmod
35	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 set	advcl
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 set	nsubj
38	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thanked	conj
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 set	compound:prt
40	for	for	ADP	_	45 moor	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 moor	det
42	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 moor	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wide	punct
44	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 moor	amod
45	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 set	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 held	punct
47	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 held	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 king	det
49	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 king	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 serpent	punct
51	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 held	nsubj
52	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 moor	conj
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 feast	nmod:poss
54	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 held	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the young man		the wizard		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent wizard=Theme for counsel=Attribute
2	go	past	the young man not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	resolve	past	man's way			firmly property	tree rules
4	carry out	to-infinitive	man's way not said here	man's purpose			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality
5	pay a condition, not said to happen	past	way			for purpose; with man's life	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
6	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	set out	past	way			for a wide lonely moor	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold	past	the serpent king	man's feast			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
9	purpose		man				nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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