The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 165
It was the custom in old times that as soon as a Japanese boy reached manhood he should leave his home and roam through the land in search of adventures.
Who acts: face, old times, boy · What happens: be, reach, leave, search · To what, where: custom, manhood, home, land, adventures
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 (face, old times, boy), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 custom | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 custom | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 custom | det |
| 4 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 times | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 custom | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 reached | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 reached | mark |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 boy | det |
| 13 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boy | amod |
| 14 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 times | acl:relcl |
| 16 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 leave | aux |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 reached | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 roam | cc |
| 23 | roam | roam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 home | conj |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 land | det |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 search | case |
| 28 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 land | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 adventures | case |
| 30 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 search | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 custom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | face | the custom | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reach | past | old times | manhood | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | should | boy | boy's home and roam | the land in search of adventures | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme through land=Location | |||
| 4 | search | adventures | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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