The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 3
He longed to go out into the world, to try his strength in battle against some enemy and to win all kinds of honour and glory.
Who acts: last · What happens: long, go out, try, win · To what, where: world, strength, battle, kinds
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 longed | nsubj |
| 2 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 longed | xcomp |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 try | mark |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 strength | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 battle | case |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 try | obl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 enemy | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 enemy | det |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 battle | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 win | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 win | mark |
| 21 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 try | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 kinds | det |
| 23 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 win | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kinds | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 glory | cc |
| 27 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 honour | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | last | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | last not said here | the world | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | try | to-infinitive | last's strength | battle against some enemy | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | win | to-infinitive | all kinds of honour and glory | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Eventuality |
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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