The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 56

However, he fared eastward, avoiding all towns, lest the people should laugh at his name, for, you see, he was not a very experienced traveller, and had not yet learned to enjoy a joke even if it were against himself.

Who acts: Japan, people, you, joke · What happens: fare, avoid, laugh, see, not be, not learn · To what, where: towns, name, experienced traveller, joke

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Japan, people, you, joke), 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 fared	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fared	nsubj
4	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eastward	eastward	ADV	_	4 fared	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 avoiding	punct
7	avoiding	avoid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fared	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 towns	det
9	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 avoiding	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laugh	punct
11	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	15 laugh	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laugh	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	aux
15	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 avoiding	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 name	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laugh	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
23	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 laugh	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 traveller	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 traveller	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 traveller	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 traveller	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 traveller	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 experienced	advmod
30	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 traveller	amod
31	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fared	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 learned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 learned	cc
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 learned	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 learned	advmod
36	yet	yet	ADV	_	37 learned	advmod
37	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 fared	parataxis
38	to	to	PART	_	39 enjoy	mark
39	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 learned	xcomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 joke	det
41	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 enjoy	obj
42	even	even	ADV	_	47 himself	advmod
43	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 himself	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 himself	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 himself	cop
46	against	against	ADP	_	47 himself	case
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 enjoy	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fare	past	Japan				eastward, however property	tree rules
2	avoid	gerund	Japan not said here	all towns				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent town=Location
3	laugh	should	the people		Japan's name			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	see	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	not is a	past	Japan	a experienced traveller				tree rules
6	not learn	past · perfect				yet		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	enjoy	to-infinitive		a joke				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus
8	is a condition, not said to happen	past	joke				against Japan	tree rules
9	name		Japan					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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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