The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 183

So he got up and walked on, and before he had gone very far was lucky enough to find a little side-path, where he could trace men’s footsteps.

Who acts: sun · What happens: get up, walk on, go, be, find, trace · To what, where: little side path, footsteps

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 (sun), 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	_	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 got	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 walked	cc
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 got	conj
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 got	parataxis
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 lucky	advmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lucky	cop
17	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gone	conj
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 lucky	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 lucky	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 path	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 path	amod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 path	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 side	punct
25	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 find	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 trace	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 trace	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 trace	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 trace	aux
30	trace	trace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 path	conj
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 footsteps	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 men	case
33	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 trace	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get up	past	sun			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	walk on	past	sun not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past · perfect	sun			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	sun not said here		enough, far, lucky property	tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	sun not said here	a little side path		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Topic
6	trace	could	sun	men's footsteps		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=Theme

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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