The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 47

So the young man departed, and went away, away, away, as well as his horse would take him, begging his living as he rode along, and, somehow or other, at last he got to the land of the sun. There he found a little old woman, who asked him, ‘What are you doing here?

Who acts: young man, horse, man, little old woman, you · What happens: depart, go away, take, beg, ride along, get · To what, where: man, living, last, little old woman

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 (young man, horse, man, little old woman), 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	_	5 departed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 departed	nsubj
5	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 departed	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 away	punct
11	away	away	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 away	punct
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 away	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
15	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	21 take	cc
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 as	fixed
17	as	as	ADP	_	15 as	fixed
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horse	nmod:poss
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 begging	punct
24	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 take	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 living	nmod:poss
26	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 begging	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 rode	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 rode	nsubj
29	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 begging	advcl
30	along	along	ADV	_	29 rode	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 somehow	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 somehow	cc
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 somehow	punct
34	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	5 departed	advmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 other	cc
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 somehow	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 got	punct
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 last	case
39	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 got	nsubj
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 departed	parataxis
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 land	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 land	det
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 got	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 sun.	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sun.	det
47	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 land	nmod
48	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	50 found	expl
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 found	nsubj
50	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 got	conj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 woman	det
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 woman	amod
53	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 woman	amod
54	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 found	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 asked	punct
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 asked	nsubj
57	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 woman	acl:relcl
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 asked	iobj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 doing	punct
60	‘	'	PUNCT	_	64 doing	punct
61	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	64 doing	obj
62	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 doing	aux
63	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 doing	nsubj
64	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	57 asked	conj
65	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 doing	advmod
66	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 departed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	depart	past	the young man				somehow property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go away	past	the young man not said here				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	would	man's horse		man			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
4	beg speech: request	gerund	man's horse not said here	man's living				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent living=Recipient
5	ride along	past	man				along property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	get	past	man			last	to the land of the sun. result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result
7	find	past	man	a little old woman		there		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
8	ask speech: ask	past	a little old woman		man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
9	do	present · progressive	you			here		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
10	live		man					nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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