The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 27
So the young men set out on their different ways, each taking a puppy with him.
Who acts: young men, each · What happens: set out, take · To what, where: different ways, puppy
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, each), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ways | nmod:poss |
| 9 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 taking | nsubj |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 ways | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 puppy | det |
| 15 | puppy | puppy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the young men | men's different ways | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | each | men's different ways not said here | a puppy | with mistress | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument puppy=Destination |
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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