The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 37
So he went away, away, away, and ended, somehow or other, by reaching the land of the moon.
Who acts: man · What happens: go away, end, reach · To what, where: land
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 away | punct |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 away | punct |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 away | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ended | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ended | cc |
| 11 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 somehow | punct |
| 13 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 11 ended | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 other | cc |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 somehow | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reaching | punct |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 reaching | mark |
| 18 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 ended | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 land | det |
| 20 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reaching | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 moon | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 moon | det |
| 23 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 land | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | man | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | end | past | man not said here | somehow property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | man not said here | the land of the moon | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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 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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