The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 2

But the guardian whom they chose turned out to be a wicked man, and spent all the money, so the boy determined to go away and strike out a path for himself.

Who acts: guardian, boy · What happens: turn out, be, spend, determine, go away, strike out · To what, where: father, wicked man, money, path

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 spent	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guardian	det
3	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	nsubj
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turned	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
6	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux:pass
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 guardian	acl:relcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 turned	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	13 man	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 man	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spent	cc
16	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 money	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 money	det
19	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 determined	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	24 determined	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 determined	nsubj
24	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 go	mark
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	xcomp
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 go	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 strike	cc
29	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	29 strike	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 path	det
32	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 strike	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 himself	case
34	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 strike	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn out	past · passive		father		tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a wicked man		tree rules
3	spend	past	the guardian	all money		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset
4	determine	past	the boy			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go away	to-infinitive	the boy not said here		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	strike out	infinitive	the boy not said here	a path	for boy	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=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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