The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 167

One day a youth started off from his native village, resolved never to come back till he had done some great deed that would make his name famous.

Who acts: youth, great deed · What happens: start off, resolve, not come back, do, make, name · To what, where: native village, great deed, name

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 (youth, great deed), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 started	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 village	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 village	nmod:poss
9	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 village	amod
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 resolved	punct
12	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 village	acl
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 come	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 resolved	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 come	advmod
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 done	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 done	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 done	aux
20	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 come	advcl
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 deed	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deed	amod
23	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 done	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 make	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 make	aux
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 deed	acl:relcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 name	nmod:poss
28	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
29	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 make	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start off	past	a youth		youth's native village	day		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	resolve	participle		youth's native village not said here				tree rules
3	not come back	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	youth	some great deed				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
5	make	would	some great deed	youth's name			famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset name=Product
6	name		youth					nom name «communication transitive»: 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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