The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 132

If some one gets into the boat to be ferried across, the old man has only to push the boat off, and go his way without looking back.

Who acts: one, old man, you · What happens: get, ferry, have, push off, go, look back · To what, where: boat, way

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, old man, you), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 gets	mark
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 go	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	10 ferried	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 ferried	aux:pass
10	ferried	ferry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 boat	acl:relcl
11	across	across	ADV	_	10 ferried	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	conj
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 push	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 push	mark
19	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 has	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boat	det
21	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 push	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	19 push	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
25	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 way	nmod:poss
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 looking	mark
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 go	advcl
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 looking	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	some one		the boat		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination
2	ferry	to-infinitive · passive	some one not said here			across property	vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»
3	have	present	the old man				tree rules
4	push off	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	the boat			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
5	go	imperative	you not said here	man's way			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look back	gerund	you not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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